If stuck in a submarine for a year with no outside contact, how would you spend your time and what would you work on?
Added 2025-08-28 22:25:43 +0000 UTCGerard Barron takes on the Desert Island Challenge.
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No outside contact? You didn’t tell me this was gonna be the best vacation of my life!
Paul
2025-09-01 19:49:25 +0000 UTCSo much to get to!
Wyatt Moser
2025-08-29 16:46:50 +0000 UTCI have a family member who is a contractor who has been stuck on submarines with nothing to do for extended periods of time. In that era it was CD-holding books full of DVDs to watch. Now, I'd think it'd be thumb drives with movie files on them, but that's such a security threat, an easy attack vector, that they might just still be chilling on top of the torpedoes watching DVDs. Personally, I'd be thinking body weight exercises, DVDs, and maybe volunteering in the galley to do something familiar and normal to keep my sanity.
Courtney M
2025-08-29 07:39:49 +0000 UTCNope. Not gunna do it. 25 years in a metal tube with wings but I've had enough MRI's to know me and tight spaces ain't going to get along. I can fly at 40,000 feet all day long but heights aren't my thing either! I need another assignment 😬.
Craig S
2025-08-29 00:35:43 +0000 UTCWrite the book that has been on my heart about the life of my little brother who was killed two years ago in a car crash, Pastor Warren Beemer.
Richard “Papa” Beemer
2025-08-28 23:50:24 +0000 UTCVolunteer for submarine duty - it'll be fun they said. I'm not falling for that again. But if i had to, I'd probably harass the Chinese, tap into all the underwater cables and distribute freedom of information to SRS, find Atlantis and of course...wake up early every Sunday for field day.
Jason K
2025-08-28 23:46:43 +0000 UTCStudy the Ocean, Bible and exercise a lot....:)
michael andrew marx
2025-08-28 23:36:27 +0000 UTCFeed my faith, exercise, read more world history, learn French and or German. Read tons of books! Observe and learn so much more about the deep big blue sea(s). Nice question.
sdixon
2025-08-28 23:20:03 +0000 UTCKeep doing what I'm doing. Exercise, eat healthy. Read my Bible and pray.
Tom
2025-08-28 23:04:07 +0000 UTCCatch up on the SRS.
Tom
2025-08-28 23:03:07 +0000 UTCMy husband is of that same mindset. He can't sleep in the top bunk in a camper. At least you are aware of that.
Jenni Madden
2025-08-28 23:02:35 +0000 UTCHave a Fight Club moment, with the gun pointed to the back of your head. Now go do it.
Tom
2025-08-28 23:02:11 +0000 UTCI'd write. I'd ask questions of my sub-mates (if there were any) and I'd listen to the answers. Of course I would ask for God's courage. I would be really silly at times to break up the monotony
Jenni Madden
2025-08-28 23:00:53 +0000 UTCI'd catch up on the hundreds of digital books I've on my "to read" list, workout, and study sealife if there are potholes on the sub
Jo
2025-08-28 22:57:46 +0000 UTCI would form a routine, exercise, study some of the disciplines that I have been putting off due to lack of time, having unlimited access to music and probably develop a personality like that of Tom Hanks in “Cast Away”.
MARIO OLIVEIRA
2025-08-28 22:54:35 +0000 UTCLooking for the lost city of Atlantis
Pete
2025-08-28 22:50:53 +0000 UTCDr. Stephen Greer or Bob Lazar. My mind would be starving for intellectual conversation. We all would need this. My father's IQ is points higher than Einstein. He has patented so many things for Draglines and Shovels for Peabody Coal Company its insane. Don't get me wrong, I am most certainly not my father, because I am half my m9ther now😉😉. But I would like to think I'm well above average intelligence. My 17 yr old son has Asbergers, however he's a genius as well. He can count cards, has never studied, and he's hands down one of the best artists around ANYWHERE. He's been getting scholarships from U of K since he was in 9th grade. We live in the foothills and hollers of Kentucky. So not trying to be mean, but we need simulating conversations......
Ashley Bryant
2025-08-28 22:36:51 +0000 UTCClaustrophobic, be dead within a week….
Michael Pebley
2025-08-28 22:32:37 +0000 UTCI would work on being in the best shape of my life, both physically and mentally.
Michelle Reynolds
2025-08-28 22:28:35 +0000 UTC
