Under Pressure

Living Life and Avoiding Death on a Nuclear Submarine

De: Richard Humphreys

Narrado por: Richard Humphreys

This is the world of the submariner. This is life under pressure.

As a restless and adventurous 18-year-old, Richard Humphreys joined the Royal Navy submarine service. For five years during the Cold War, he served on the nuclear sub HMS Resolution. Nothing could have prepared him for life beneath the waves. He existed in a world without natural light, surrounded by 140 other men, all eating the same food, breathing the same air, smelling the same putrid smells and surviving together in some of the most forbidding conditions imaginable.

Based on Humphreys’ firsthand experience, Under Pressure is the candid, visceral and incredibly entertaining account of what it’s like to live, work, sleep and eat - and stay sane - in one of the most extreme man-made environments on the planet.

©2020 Richard Humphreys (P)2020 Harlequin Enterprises, Limited

Not for me

Any resemblance to an American Submarine is a figment of one's imagination. This book is nothing but continuous Whines, served with no cheese. I believe the author's statement that he did not get on with the rest of the crew says all that needs to be said about his attitude. I spent 30 years in the navy, with all my service on or in support of Submarines. We had whiners like this and we did not bully them, we just ignored them, as long as they did not put others in danger or put the boat in danger. In the Navy I was in, people that were as unhappy as the writer was, had the courage to walk out and stand on the pier, and not make life hell for those around them. He whines continuously about stink on the boat. I will agree with him, as the British boats I visited in the late 60s and early 70s were stinking filthy hulls, that I could not get off of fast enough. I do not recommend this book to anyone that wants to find out what life was like on an American Submarine.