USS Pampanito Submarine Trip 2002
| | First we took the public tour of the submarine.
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| | They provides us with listening devices. You hold it up to your ear and hear the story of the submarine.
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| | We listened to the voices of old men who were once young sailors on the Pampanito.
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| | The engine room where the electric motors are always smelled of fuel. It still smells today.
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| | For a ship that is a part of the silent service, it could be very noisy when the engines were running. The engineer had to communicate with hand signals when the engines were on.
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| | The forward torpedo tubes go a long way.
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| | High Adventure group shot in front of the submarine.
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| | The sides of a sub are grey and the top is black to make it harder to spot by air and by sea. The number of the Pampanito, 383, has been repainted in white.
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| | After the Pampanito, we visited Alcatraz.
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| | Alcatraz is the spanish word for pelican.
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| | What a dizzy day, on to the Exploratorium.
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