CHAPTER NINE
USS Halibut – North Pacific
Submarining is generally known as endless hours of tedious boredom, interrupted by moments of sheer panic. I don’t intend to spend a lot of time telling you about our month-long submerged trip across the Pacific, and I already told you about our moment of sheer panic at the start of this trip.
Suffice it to say that we drilled a lot, both the ship’s crew and my guys. Ham was an absolute evil genius when it came to devising ways to confound the dive team. Like the time he flooded the main lock with Jimmy, Whitey, and Ski inside (simulated, of course), cut off their air into the lock and through the umbilicals, told them the flushing valve was clogged, and then set the team to solve the problem somehow.
When the guys went to use the EABs, Ham shut
