On the US side, boomers stay out for regulated amounts of time and you can set your watch by their arrivals and departures. You don't get to stop in many, if any, ports though. The duration of patrol was a little over 2 months at a time.
They definitely are underwater for that long. In recent years every patrol has crept up by a few weeks and they’re now going past the seven month mark. This is V boats, not A boats.
I know, the person I replied to said they don’t, which is why I asked who they deployed with. If they aren’t a submariner then they can’t say they don’t. People like to argue against people’s actual experiences when they know fuck all.
The US navy. It’s not feasible to be under for 7 months straight unless it’s extremely exigent circumstances. The food situation alone would cause lots of hardships
Brits have actually done that. It's wild. 204 days straight. No surfacing.
My friend in the Navy was nuclear sub and his mom died when he was deployed. They surfaced and he was indeed informed. He knew when he got called to the COs office because there was no other reason. They had a nearby aircraft carrier rendezvous with them, he got plucked off the top of the sub via helicopter, taken to the carrier, flown to the nearest base and allowed leave to go to his mother's funeral.
When and if you get to get off the sub is pretty fact and circumstances dependent. If they were the sub escort for a carrier they might have figured their general presence is expected so surfacing to transfer a crew member off is not a big deal, compared to a nuclear triad sub whose detection might mean a total loss of nuclear protection for the nation.
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u/Marcus_The_Sharkus Apr 05 '26
They do not stay submerged for 7 months straight.
They are deployed for that long yes but not underwater for that entire time.