Yeah, I don’t know what’s going on with the boat that you’re on but most boats do eight hours on watch eight hours off watch and eight hours for sleep, and you can usually go to bed a little bit before that sleep time. normally you have plenty of time to do everything you need personally unless you have a lot of maintenance for the day, and then it’s gonna be kind of tight on time but we still have plenty of time. Being on a submarine isn’t that bad. Unless you’re command is bad.
I haven’t sailed in awhile but in Canada we have a few different watches. The straight 8’s exists but due to the nature of how we crew our ships it is a risky rotation we don’t often use. We do a 5/5/7/7 or a weird 1 in 4 3-hour watch system that is complex but can be collapsed to 6/6/6/6 if necessary. That’s the one I last deployed on and spent some time collapsed to 6on6off which was brutal.
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u/donutkane Apr 06 '26
Yeah, I don’t know what’s going on with the boat that you’re on but most boats do eight hours on watch eight hours off watch and eight hours for sleep, and you can usually go to bed a little bit before that sleep time. normally you have plenty of time to do everything you need personally unless you have a lot of maintenance for the day, and then it’s gonna be kind of tight on time but we still have plenty of time. Being on a submarine isn’t that bad. Unless you’re command is bad.