Someone Is Bound To Put This In A Techno Track
Courtesy the Sub Report, the submarine equivalent of the K-Car’s audio warning system.
Turns out USS Seawolf had an odd warning system that is sampled on the linked page.
I got to drive that K-car once. Thing had a nasty habit of informing you “Your Windshield Washer Fluid Is Low” during a high-g turn between Jersey barriers in torrential rain at night. I wanted to make delicate adjustments to it with a ball peen hammer…
2 Responses to “Someone Is Bound To Put This In A Techno Track”
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May 31st, 2005 at 9:16 pm
Ah, yes. What we call a “percussion calibration.”
May 31st, 2005 at 10:59 pm
we used to call the EY circuit alarm ( the one you mention that was on the seawolf) as the “bitch in the box”. it was a young female’s voice that could easily wake you from a dead sleep after a 20 hour repair. “FIRE, FIRE, FIRE in the After Auxilliary Space” would pull me awake in an instant. especially since i knew the fire alarm handle was directly below my bunk, down in after aux.