David White – Lazy chefs lead to weight loss

You get other horror stories of lazy Chefs or unimaginative Chefs or Chefs who actually completely cocked it up and come close to running out of food because most Captains will not come in early, because that is such a blot on their copy book, they’ll just go and enforce rationing. 

And I’ve heard stories of blokes coming back off of a Patrol, you know, starving. They’ve lost a decent amount of weight and you’re not doing any real effort out there.

There’s no real, you know … alright the Polaris boats and that all have multigyms and exercise bikes and that but a diesel submarine, it’s a very sedentary life unless you’re a Stoker in the Engine Room wielding spanners but most of us spent eight hours a day in our bunk, eight hours a day in the Mess watching movies, reading, writing or whatever and eight hours at work, so not a great deal and these guys had lost weight and when we used to come in and de-store, you’d have a huge lorry would come down and take all your food off because you’re never normally at sea for as long as you expect.

They reckoned he de-stored in a carrier bag.  Two tins of pilchards and a tin of teabags or something like that.

He lost his rating, he got punished, he got reported, put in the rattle as we call it in the Navy, and demoted for gross negligence of duty and deservedly so.