Hah, that is surely one of the many differences between reading about a sub and serving on one.
Me: US navy nuclear submarines are a much-cited example of the successful design, development and deployment of high-reliability systems.
You: I sometimes wonder how it is that more of us are not sleeping with the fishes.
Still, everyone from designers to crews must be doing something right since it's apparently possible to drive such a machine into a rock at flank speed[1] or through a boat[2] or have it commanded by someone exhibiting strikingly poor judgement[3]. Without killing everyone on board and better yet, the planet.
Me: US navy nuclear submarines are a much-cited example of the successful design, development and deployment of high-reliability systems.
You: I sometimes wonder how it is that more of us are not sleeping with the fishes.
Still, everyone from designers to crews must be doing something right since it's apparently possible to drive such a machine into a rock at flank speed[1] or through a boat[2] or have it commanded by someone exhibiting strikingly poor judgement[3]. Without killing everyone on board and better yet, the planet.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_San_Francisco_(SSN-711)#Col... [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Greeneville_(SSN-772)#The_E... [3] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/12/michael-ward-affair...