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Re:The Sinking of HMS ‘Victoria’ Led the Royal Navy Astray by arethuza on Tuesday May 16, 2017 @11:14AM (#14350205)
I can strongly recommend "The Silent Deep" about the Royal Navy submarine service. The parts describing the Perisher course are fascinating (the author, perhaps because he is a Peer, actually got to go on subs during the course) - imagine a training course where if you deemed to have failed you are immediately removed from the training area (by helicopter) and never allowed to work in that area of the Navy again! Mind you, apparently you do get a bottle of whisky to make up for your career being in shreds.

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/183977/the-silent-deep/

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Re:The Sinking of HMS ‘Victoria’ Led the Royal Navy Astray by GrumpSlverBear on Tuesday May 16, 2017 @11:39AM (#14350392)
There has been a couple of programs on the UK channels (I think mostly Channel4/Five) that dealt with with Perisher course. It is brutal, hard, and exhausting.

And yeah, bottle of whisky on your leave and you can't work on subs anymore (though you do get to keep the Dolphin pin apparently).

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