I know you think of it as another desk job but surly you've had some wups situations on the job. Anything dangerous?
The first thing I can say is that everything on those submarines is designed with enough safeguards that it will ideally be able to function normally while dealing with the side effects of near-misses from enemy fire. So, rarely do things get too far out of hand.
That being said, we are a construction environment, and we do have things go wrong from time to time. However, various confidentiality agreements preclude me from really talking about it in detail. To get an idea of how badly things could go, look at
USS Thresher or
the fire on USS Miami.
Generally, though, "whoops" moments are far less catastrophic & we've done a lot to make sure things like the Thresher & Miami don't happen again. The bad stuff that happens to our people (and it's still bad, just not catastrophic) is more on the level of someone getting hit with a ruptured hose, technicians getting electrocuted due to people not understanding the circuit they're testing, or someone who's worked far too long destroying cabinets by shorting high-power electricity through them.
In today's shipyards, it's unusual for something to go so wrong that anyone is killed. In general, when that does happen, it's because multiple people screwed up significantly.
Name a pass time sport you'd like to try and haven't? (Such as hand gliding, golf, scuba, bungie jumping, horseback riding etc.)
Mountain climbing and scuba make my list. Hang gliding, bungie jumping and similar would have me too afraid of having a seizure at the worst possible moment. I know, mountain climbing should fall under that "seizure risk" umbrella, but it's less adrenalin than bungie jumping (so less likely to "stress seize") and you've more control over the scenery than hang gliding (so less likely to have a sudden flash of light off the water or similar to trigger photosensitive seizures).
Horse riding, for me, is a "been there, done that"; although never more than a canter and then only once. I would like to have the opportunity to ride again, and go trail riding, though.
