{"id":281,"date":"2014-03-30T15:56:50","date_gmt":"2014-03-30T19:56:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jonesling.us\/blog\/?p=281"},"modified":"2014-03-30T16:39:20","modified_gmt":"2014-03-30T20:39:20","slug":"agss-albacore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/?p=281","title":{"rendered":"AGSS Albacore"},"content":{"rendered":"

When the weather outside is rotten, the logical thing to do is find some indoor activities.\u00a0 Today was such a day so we went to visit AGSS Albacore<\/a>, an experimental research submarine, in Portsmouth, NH.<\/p>\n

\"Alpha<\/a>
This is one of the more spacious bunks. Some were in dark corners with equipment dangling over the bunk – close enough that if you rolled over you would knock it with your shoulder or hip.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The main museum is the submarine, with a nearly-full-access self-guided audio tour.\u00a0 By full-access I mean lying in the bunks, playing with the dive-plane controls, flipping switches, and turning dials.\u00a0 The engine room is completely open (visually, if not physically, since some of the more dangerous bits have barriers).<\/p>\n

\"Crew's<\/a>
The crew’s mess doubles as a recreation area. Backgammon and checkers; I don’t think anyone had time to play chess (not a reflection on submariners – I’ve known a few that could beat me handily at chess)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It was cool because it gave an idea of how the crew lived.\u00a0 Tight quarters everywhere and no wasted space.\u00a0 Fifty guys shared a couple of toilets; I can’t imagine the smell.<\/p>\n

\"Itty-bitty<\/a>
Why did they tile the floor?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The submarine itself was an experiment and was refit several times over its lifetime with enhancements like new propulsion, including an uncommon twin screw design.<\/p>\n

\"Twin<\/a>
I read up on submarine design before the trip. Twin counter-rotating screws like this are unusual, but several Soviet-Russian submarines sported them as well. This is one of the only examples in the American fleet.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The experience is much better than touring the USS Nautilus<\/a>.\u00a0 The Nautilus is ok if you’ve never seen the inside of a submarine, but everything is off-limits so the tour takes five minutes (or less if you have small children).\u00a0 The guys in the museum office “don’t talk about the Nautilus” and felt quite a bit of pride in the openness of the Albacore vs. the Nautilus.\u00a0 We were in there for nearly three-quarters of an hour, and another half hour in the museum shop (including a video of how the got the submarine to it’s present location).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When the weather outside is rotten, the logical thing to do is find some indoor activities.\u00a0 Today was such a day so we went to visit AGSS Albacore, an experimental research submarine, in Portsmouth, NH. The main museum is the submarine, with a nearly-full-access self-guided audio tour.\u00a0 By full-access I mean lying in the bunks, … Continue reading “AGSS Albacore”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":276,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-family","category-things-to-do"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/wpid-wp-1396208971652.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4o3FW-4x","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=281"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":291,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281\/revisions\/291"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}