"Mortimer Schnerd, RN" mschnerdatcarolina.rr.com wrote in message
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With nuclear submarines being the norm, why travel at the surface in a rough
sea?

Good question! Operating out of Scotland, we had to travel several hours to
and from port on the surface. Our schedule was "locked in stone" so we could
not wait for nice weather. Sometimes it was months between those few hours of
hell, so I never had a chance to really get acclimated to the motion.
Submerged, we sometimes took surprisingly large rolls, but had little pitching
motion. One tactic back then was to follow storms for as long as possible to
avoid detection, so we were sometimes taking those rolls for a week or more at a
time. That motion I found inconvenient, but it never made me sick.

Vaughn