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Pastimes : Where the GIT's are going
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To: Shoot1st who wrote (171469)12/19/2008 5:25:18 PM
From: Oral Roberts  Read Replies (1) of 225578
 
I'm sure some of my hearing loss comes from gunfire but a good share of it comes from a little incident aboard the sub. We had 4500 lb air in the banks and then reduced it for the various places that needed air. Well the torpedo's were impulsed out of the boat with 3000lb air so there was a 4500 to 3000 lb regulator on the starboard side outside the tubes in a real cramped space. When bringing the system back online you would bypass the regulator and bleed air slowly into the tanks for impulse by using a bypass valve. You don't want to suddenly pressurize something at that pressure because if there is oil in the lines you will get compression ignition and a fire in the lines. Anyhow the guy had set the bleed on bypass and forgotten it and I was the below decks watch and the relief valve started to blow. I don't know if you've ever heard 3000lb air blow a relief valve but it is probably the equal to a 300 mag going off in a closet and doing it at a machine gun rate. I had to crawl this crawl space to shut the air off and it took probably 15 seconds of this machine gun going off. I couldn't hear normal speech for 3 days.

I'm rather protective of the hearing I have left today but the present damage is there. I can't understand mumblers and sadly can't hear worth a hoot in a crowd. The background noise makes it impossible for me to hear the sound I want to hear, friends talking.

I end up sitting alone and spectating until we leave.
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