Always nice when a newly registered account pops up talking of shills and Citizenfour. I didn't mention 2, 4 or 5 at all in my post which undermines you a tad.

Always nice when a newly registered account pops up talking of shills and Citizenfour. I didn't mention 2, 4 or 5 at all in my post which undermines you a tad. The point is that a "top of class" trainee is making basic factual errors (65m as the "safe depth" for a submarine) and accepting every second hand story he heard as the gospel truth. Anyone who has spent any time in any military will tell you that service personnel, especially those cut off from the world for 3 months, like to tell exciting stories which get embellished with the retelling. Submariners, even more so than the rest of the Navy, are "all in the same ship" when it comes to safety. Incidents like the fire on HMS TIRELESS which killed two submariners are drilled into young personnel as examples of the dangers involved. I'd prefer to side with the rest of the crew, all far more experienced, over a trainee conducting his own crusade. As for the concept of material defects - nuclear submarines are probably the most complicated machines in the world, operating in a hostile environment, things break all the time. Patio11 is still fixing bugs in Bingo Card Creator, I think we can accept that there might be problems on a submarine, that's why they embark engineers.