Ian Moore – Part Three

Your Part Three is the whole of these tests, all the way through, so you will learn what happens in every single Department, how it all works. It’s an in-depth understanding that you actually need. It’s way over and above what you would actually have to learn on a Surface Ship if you were joining.

Simon: Whereas Part 3 teaches the intimate understanding …

Part Three on a diesel submarine, you need to understand all of that, not least of which is because in a war situation, if somebody gets injured, killed and various other bits and pieces, we’re so short staffed on one of those, where skills are so finite, that we need to be able to cross-skill so if something happens in one Department where they need additional bodies, you can actually be chosen to go up there and give them a hand and be expected to know what to do, and that was the difference between a Submariner and our Surface Fleet, the Skimmers.

It was always a big, massive difference between us. At the end of your Part Three , you then have, for us as Engineers, you then had the dreaded Chief Tiff’s walkthrough.

The Chief Tiff’s walkthrough is he will take you through that submarine and he will ask you any question he likes on any aspect of any system on that submarine, and he will expect you to know it intimately, know it backwards.