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Under Pressure - Living Life and Avoiding Death on a Nuclear Submarine (Paperback)
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Under Pressure - Living Life and Avoiding Death on a Nuclear Submarine (Paperback)
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'One of the finest memoirs published in recent years.' Dan Jones
'An utterly fascinating and wonderfully detailed insight into the
hidden world of the modern submarine.' James Holland A candid,
visceral, and incredibly entertaining account of what it's like to
live in one of the most extreme environments in the world. Imagine
a world without natural light, where you can barely stand up
straight for fear of knocking your head, where you have no idea of
where in the world you are or what time of day it is, where you
sleep in a coffin-sized bunk and sometimes eat a full roast for
breakfast. Now imagine sharing that world with 140 other sweaty
bodies, crammed into a 430ft x 33ft steel tube, 300ft underwater,
for up to 90 days at a time, with no possibility of escape. And to
top it off, a sizeable chunk of your living space is taken up by
the most formidably destructive nuclear weapons history has ever
known. This is the world of the submariner. This is life under
pressure. As a restless and adventurous 18-year-old, Richard
Humphreys joined the submarine service in 1985 and went on to serve
aboard the nuclear deterrent for five years at the end of the Cold
War. Nothing could have prepared him for life beneath the waves.
Aside from the claustrophobia and disorientation, there were the
prolonged periods of boredom, the constant dread of discovery by
the Soviets, and the smorgasbord of rank odours that only a group
of poorly-washed and flatulent submariners can unleash. But even in
this most pressurised of environments, the consolations were
unique: where else could you sit peacefully for hours listening to
whale song, or... Based on first-hand experience, Under Pressure is
the candid, visceral and incredibly entertaining account of what
it's like to live, work, sleep, eat - and stay sane - in one of the
most extreme man-made environments on the planet.
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