This is a link to the webpage SeeStories. It is a very unique eBook that allows you select the order in which you read the "chapters". It also has some videos that you can play as introductions to some of the stories. Some are free some are not, but you can buy them in the STORE.
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WELCOME to the REQUESTED PAGE.
If you can't find the "story" you would be interested in, let me know. The chances are that I do have a story; yet unwritten that will describe what you would like to know about. I'm at TEST DEPTH get in touch with me!
Once it is written it will show up below, for those that wish to purchase it. YOU of course will get a copy FREE. (Everybody else has to pay. And no there will be nothing in it for you other than the free story.)
WAKE, is the first requested story. Requested by a friend of mine in a FaceBook post who asked "Yeah, but does a sub leave a wake, man??!!" So you can see it prompted a SeeStory. Click the icon on the left here to read the free one. The full story will be up for sale shortly, which my friend will get for free.
I very much appreciate the friend that asked the question. We have re-established contact of late, after being out of contact most of our lives. We have both covered a lot of territory in our lives that started as best friends who lived across the street from each other. So yeah, Mike; we all leave a wake behind us.
WAKE
DIESEL POWER
DIESEL POWER is not a requested story. And it's free because it's connected to CALYPSO (if you take this link scroll down to DRY SUMP OIL SYSTEM.)The lesson learned over 50 years ago, the story behind the story, connects my love of Calypso and this story from my diesel boat days here on SeeStories. My lesson learned from the experience back then led to my strong desire for the Dry Sump Oil system that became possible in the 2014 LT1 engine that Calypso has. This story is free because it is an example of how long it takes sometimes for things learned to have a payoff. In this case forced oil, regardless of gravity.
MEMORY ITEMS
Yet another non-requested story, in a manner of speaking. This story is to answer those that ask about the ashtray I have with me whenever I'm in the Pool. I've had this ashtray since February of 1972. And now it is the source of a huge number of memories for me, some of which lead to SeeStories. You can now download this story by clicking on it. It will open it up as a free PDF file just like all the other free stories on this website. Once you do that it will provide you a link back to the home page of SeeStories so you can go down other paths.
Monkey Pod Dolphins
I was asked by a couple of people who watched one of the podcasts I've been in about "my Dolphins". So a very "sidebar" story for free here. The story of my "Monkey Pod Dolphins" and how there were several times I was reminded of them while watching the TV show "Hawaii 5-0". So with this paper I describe that, as well as my respect for the handywork of a goodly number of people in the City of Olongapo in the Philippines. If you don't know what Dolphins are I would suggest reading that story first.
Standing a Bridge Watch
One of the most basic and simplistic watches on board a Submarine are "Bridge Watches" and standing them on Diesel boats was vastly superior to that on Nuclear Powered boats, just due to the quiet and peaceful time spent performing the task. Here I am 50 years later and I find myself cherishing the time I spent up on the Bridge. Now than that is NOT saying anything about the details of performing that watch. So here is a very basic description along with several slides of a presentation that shows the details of the task.
Possible War Ship
My son Nick and my Grandson Eli just took a cruise through the English Channel. I followed along bringing back lots of memories, of my "cruises" even though not a one of them was through the English Channel. Several people on the old DIRSUP FB group pages that I visit told me of things that happened in those waters. One of those stories triggered me back to one of my SeeStories and I have now written a one pager on that memory.
While I never went through the English Channel I did cross over it. Here is a link to the video about my "cruises" in the Med. The first 8 seconds covers my crossing of the English Channel. You might also be able to see where this SeeStory took place, if you watch the whole video. OR you could go to the "Perspective" page here and figure it out there.
AND while posting this story on my "Requests" page the depth on that page has created the need for a brighter text.
A temporary diversion to this the "Requested Page". Above I mentioned Nick and Eli's "cruise". Here is the whole trip. Trains, Planes, and Automobiles (not in that order) and of course the SHIP MSC Preziosa is shown.
Risks of Direct Support
While this story was not directly "requested", I felt motivated of late to add it as a freebee. There were so many memories exchanged of late regarding the three maximum aspects of the risks that DIRSUP people lived with, that I wrote this to document my connection to the events and the people I knew that were directly impacted by the events.
You will note that I have not written about the Thresher or the Scorpion. This is primary because I didn't know anyone on board either of those two, or anyone impacted by their loss. Thresher was the only one to come close to impacting me, and that was because the Thresher incident motivated me to never ride a 594 Class boat. Although, I did appreciate that it created the SUBSAFE program. Note that the number/name of the class was the 593/Thresher class until the Thresher loss. At that point the class number/name changed to the 594/Permit Class, the Navy's attempt to put it behind them.
US Navy to Civilian
Another example of how one thing leads to another in SeeStories. I recently added the Standing a Sonar Watch video to the Perspective Page. That led to someone reading the story "A Moment of Technical Transition", which led to them asking the question of how I ended up working for Spectral Dynamics. And that led to this story.
So again, SeeStories can be read in any order you wish. While there is a sense of orderliness to the universe, sometimes you can jump from one situation or "story" to another, in the order you choose.
And this "requested story" can lead to the "Perspective Page Video" or you can visit the store and purchase the story of a happen chance moment
Injury and Illness
Some recent postings on FaceBook amongst some friends, the subject of Illnesses and Injury treatment came up. Their postings on FB motivated me to write the one story that I remember the best on that topic, explaining some of the details behind the story.
And another SeeStory "First". There are two stories, one a subset of "Injury and Illness", based on questions from good friends. The second story is "contagious situation", one that I am not proud of, but being as though I was in my early twenties at the time probably not unexpected.
TIME TRAVEL
An error with regards to Double Meanings. This SeeStory has the name SINS. I need to explain the name here because one of my visitors thought that it had a biblical connection. It is NOT a SIN in the biblical sense. Note I have added to the name here. SINS is an acronym used by Submarine Sailors as the "SHIPS INTERNAL NAVIGATION SYSTEM". The SINS system is an absolutely critical piece of equipment and how it works is a very difficult thing to do. BUT, a very clever Navigation ET came up with a very short written explanation of how the system did work, and it spread like wild-fire around the fleet until virtually every boat had one posted on the system itself. Its a famous story and it will cost you a buck to read it. Go ahead click the PDF Icon to the left here and it will take you to the page to purchase it.
SINS (aka Ships Internal Navigation System)
This story was not actually "requested". Although it is a story that has a common thread to several conversations of late with some friends who are familiar with SeeStories. Those conversations (actual and posts on FB) provided the motivation to this SeeStory. The story covers multiple levels of detail and depends on ready access to some mapping of this world we live on (and "in"/"under"). So I wrote about this SeeStory titled TIME TRAVEL that also provides the mapping for understanding. It is all about an experience that very few people in this world we live in have experienced. My estimate would be most likely less than 500 over the last 500 years.
