If you haven’t toured the Becuna, it’s worth a visit. When you get to the wardroom, on that short transverse bench facing forward, is where I sat as a very young Naval Ensign conducting a salvage inspection and calmly wrote up the commanding officer of the Becuna for not having kept his escape training current. I must say it seemed like the right thing to do at the time. Subsequently, however, I received some intense “personal guidance” from my own CO back on the Tringa. It was certainly one of those “tuition payments to the school of Life.” By the way, the best way to get through those circular hatches between compartments on a diesel boat is to grab the handrail above the hatch, stuff your feet through first and then limbo up into the next compartment. Also, watch your head in the control room and engine rooms. There are or were, at least, a number of valve handles that were just the right height for an unsuspecting Ensign to recognize them by contact, as opposed to vision. Yup – I tested that.