David White – Reacting to sudden noises still now

Silence has always been the watch word and even now I react very badly to sudden noises. My poor darling wife drops a tray in the kitchen, oh, what was that you know and it affects you. 

Simon:  From the days of it being so important? 

Yes, yep, and I know I’m not alone in that, a lot of Submariners say because you know, we spend half our life creeping around in our socks at what they call ultra-quiet routine. 

Because noise travels so well in water, that you’ve got to make the tiniest noise and you can be detected, so you wanted to go to the loo, you couldn’t flush it, so now, modern submarines you have this huge sewage tank, so all the toilets are linked to it so it’s at atmospheric pressure so you use the loo, you flush it, it’s got a pistol and course it’s sea water, because another thing, is fresh water’s a very precious commodity.