A new report offers a rare look at the conditions in China's growing submarine fleet. It found the crews suffer from excessive noise, poor lighting and bad air quality. The question is whether these ...

US submarines are powerful weapons of the United States Navy, operating in extreme conditions with advanced navigation, sonar ...

One of the hardest aspects of submarine life was the isolation from the rest of the world—the subs sometimes not surfacing for weeks. “You can get crushing loneliness,” Wise said. “It was very, very ...

Inside the commissioning of the USS Iowa submarine and a look at Navy sub school. We travel to Connecticut for the commissioning of the USS Iowa submarine. While we were there, we also got a ...

They had noisy submarines that were easy to follow, while ours were very quiet and hard to find.” He was packed inside with other submariners who kept busy. “The Navy is very good at finding ways to ...

It is the most secretive and least heralded of roles in the armed forces. While life on a submarine may not be the most physically strenuous in the military, the mental challenges are arguably the ...

Life below the waves can be stressful but a select few thrive in a submarine’s closed-off environment. “I have always thought of submarine life as an interesting comedy of manners underwater,” says ...

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