Exploring OFF LIMIT Areas WW2 Battleship : USS Iowa
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welcome everyone I'm in Southern
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California today and behind me is the
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battleship known as the USS Iowa they
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give tours throughout here on a daily
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basis but I am going to be getting a
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special tour if you will into some of
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the off liit areas in the nether regions
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you could say of this historic
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Battleship would you like to tag along
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join
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me shall you
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want to
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see we're climbing up that this is not
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tour right this is oh this is no no no
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this is way off tour this is all behind
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the scenes this is all behind the scenes
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right
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here all right I'm ready all right
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first stop the 04 level essentially the
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navigation
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bridge this is 17 1/2 in thick it is
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three
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levels this door right here weighs 4,000
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lb lb you can see how thick it is 17 in
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you said 17 1/2 it's actually
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17.3 but 17 and A2 is easier to get your
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head
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in this is the main Helm this is where
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you steer the ship from so this is
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basically the main control P if you turn
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this the Rudders turn don't step on
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that that's a long hard way down that's
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not part of the tour no there would be a
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a a redder angle indicator here and then
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over to the left is What's called the
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engine order Telegraph you can see the
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port and
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starboard indicators for Speed Port yes
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starbor now is Port the front of the
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ship no Port is the left side port four
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letters p o r t left four letters l e f
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t this is the actual captain's chair
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right here is INS sign
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embroidered on the
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back that is a periscope this is a
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periscope and it it does not it does not
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go up and down it's it's hard mounted
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right here you can't really see out
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because there's a weather cover up top
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but you can kind of look in there you
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can kind of
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see a little bit of the
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hole now the higher you get does it get
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like tighter quarters oh
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absolutely now I would talk to the Pilot
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House do they ever talk back or oh yes
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now I would talk to teletype
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repair now I would talk to uh actually
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all
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three combat information there's someone
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in that room they can talk back to you
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right now on another Squawk Box like
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this as far as you know the ship isn't
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haunted
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right there there
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is to be honest with you that is a
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sensitive part uh that is a sensitive
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subject on Iowa because of the accident
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in 1989 April 19th
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1989 the ship suffered what's called an
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open breach explosion of the center gun
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on turret 2 47 men were killed oh wow
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what you will never see on this ship is
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Ghostbusters or uh you know those those
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paranormal in search of uh outfits the
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captain lives in a broom closet the
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captain lives in a broom closet yes and
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that's really not
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hyperbole no lights so why would the
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captain live in something you know this
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minute he is
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responsible for the ship he is the
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ultimate responsibility for the ship and
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that responsibility is 24/7
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so he is going to be in in a
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location where he is very very close to
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command and control every second this is
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a bed what happens is this pulls out
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there's a mattress folded up vertically
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there that folds out and look he's
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laying here and right here he's got a
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gyro
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Compass uh there would be a clock there
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and he's got Cal right here you know he
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can wake up in the middle of the night
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and just look at something and tell if
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he's on course and in the right
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speed what was that that was 10:00 oh
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that's the timer yes that's the clock
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that ships Bells the ladders are
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starting to narrow you also have to
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watch your back and your head when going
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up
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these they don't make these for tall
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overweight
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man I just hit my
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head I just hit my head out there the
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eighth level up from the main deck this
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is what's called The Battle Bridge the
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higher up you are the better you can see
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and the farther you can
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see so this is pretty much the highest
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you can get on this level oh we can go
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higher than this the higher you go the
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narrower it gets so so at this point it
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really really starts to close in tight
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how old that phone
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is yep wow and what would this have been
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used for again this is Cal uh it would
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have a label on it that tells you what
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circuit is uh obviously a captain or
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somebody is going to know this is sound
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powered push to talk it doesn't need any
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electricity to
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work not the one with the not the one
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with flag on it but the the turret
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that's up closest to us Center one the
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center one and and the guns were trained
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out to starboard there's a big puff and
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the Bloomers those black fabric things
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the Bloomers blow off and all this many
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how many casualties were there for
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everyone inside turret 2 was killed
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everyone 47 men wow right below us right
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here you can see the top level of the
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armored conning Tower you see that old
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block right there couple decks down
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that's where they could have thrown uh
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Roosevelt if they needed to in case
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emergency in case of emergency the
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middle level which we were in and then
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that upper level right there which is
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the Gunnery officer uh
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position all of this is not part of the
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normal tour oh no this is all just
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something you're showing like an
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exclusive for this is an exclusive for
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Adam the woo I'm very happy to be here I
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appreciate that that's that's the four
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for stack right there that's a Ford
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Smoke Stack when's the last time that
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omitted any steam or smoke probably 1990
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that is for defending against anti-ship
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missiles that fires 3,000 rounds a
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minute you're going to try to shoot them
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down but that whole defense system is
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three prong you're going to try to fool
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it with chaff you're going to send up
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these chaff Rockets which make a big
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cloud of tint foil that's jamming you're
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going to try to jam the ship's missile
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and and and and scramble its brains so
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you're going to try to shoot it down
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you're going to try to fool it with tin
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foil and you're going to try to scramble
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it FR a three-part plan three-part plan
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and hopefully one of them
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Works a storage room and Equipment room
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okay but what we have over
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here is pretty
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interesting this is the lookout
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position look here Lookout
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Port now these normally slide open they
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would this would flip open it's just
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oval viewing slit there'd be nine guys
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sitting here with
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binoculars this is the kind of stuff I
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love the uh texture DEC composure of
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stuff over decades and decades this blue
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chair is kind of ominous there's one in
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here too it sort of looks like an
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execution that's what I was thinking it
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looks almost like a yeah exactly like
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you were saying like a electric
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chair what is up there that up in there
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and you see how it's a cylinder that
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wants to
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rotate yeah that is the Mark 38 director
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that is the gun sits for the big guns
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I'm actually climbed up this
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hole look at this
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borrow your flashlight real
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quick go up in
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here here we go wow look at that
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happen it's just nuts in
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there and you've been up in there yes I
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have couple
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times it's even crazy to think the
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people who went up there constantly were
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probably getting up there in 2 seconds
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just cuz they were so used to doing it
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over and over for me it takes me 10
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minutes to climb up and down there all
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right I'm coming into the
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darkness really dark in
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here here we
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go holy cow look at
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this
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wow this is called CC combat engagement
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Center look at the IMM tape computer
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tape back
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there oh yeah remember that
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stuff Wheels yep
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these are weapons consoles these are
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weapons consoles arold Reagan converted
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her basically to a missile boat she's
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got the big guns but she also carried
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Harpoon anti-ship missiles she carried
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16 of those and she carried 32 Tomahawk
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cruise missiles 1500 mile range nuclear
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capable that means from where we sit
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right now St Louis Missouri is toast
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these two over here are Harpoon consoles
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this is where you launch weapons right
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here
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if you were in battle you would dim the
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lights like this
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yep and what was the point of dimming
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the lights from the red the the white
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and the red to the blue what red light
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gets you is it doesn't destroy your
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night vision if you're in white light
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your eyes are bleached and they found
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that that blue works as good or even
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better this cabin right
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here General Hap Arnold general of the
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Air
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Force no kidding 1943 1943 November
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43 Admiral Ernest King oh yeah chief of
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Naval operations November
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1943 so 1943 was The Big Year for these
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rooms as far as well that two weeks that
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November of 43 when Roosevelt was on
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board everybody going to meet Uncle Joe
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Stalin are the floor safe to walk on in
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here yes
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okay you can see after being laid up so
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many years you know things just start to
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fall apart after a
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while what is the significance of the HD
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and the C I'm guessing hot hot cold and
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drinking drain drain okay this is what's
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called the flag bag right above us is
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the signal bridge and there's these this
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box and this wack where all the signal
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flags hang well this is the bottom level
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of the signal flag so right behind here
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there'd be a bunch of cloth flags
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hanging down okay gotcha it's called the
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flag bag I'm actually inside a bathroom
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right now and there's you can see the
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nozzles for the shower I don't think the
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water works though you see these all
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through the ship this is called a
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bullseye and once you learn how to read
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it this is uh essentially an address
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like the address painted on your curb we
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are on the second deck we are at frame
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50 you know there's frames down along
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the ship it goes down to about I think
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it's about 212 zero we are on center
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line L it's living space and the
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division responsible is second
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division that's a deck division bosen's
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mates so every one of these will be
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different and it tells you where you are
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on the ship we just stepped off the top
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of the Citadel that is the forward edge
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of the armored shoe box that's in the
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ship QA a quick acting armored
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door this is called a pit o
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death I could see why they call it that
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yeah it's it's pretty self-explanatory
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I'm not going to get too close to the
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edge but look down there that's uh
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that's
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sketchy there's another one on the other
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side how deep down does that go to the
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very bottom of the ship pretty
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much WoW
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that that's impressive yes it
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is it's so easy to see something like
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this and it's oh it's just it's an
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exhibit it's a museum you know men never
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lived here you know it's this empty
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space Oh it's cool and everything but
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but a lot of times you don't get the
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reality of what you're seeing remember
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the explosion in turret 2 they tried to
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pin it on someone it was complete
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BS okay how they tried to
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pin the accident on this guy saying this
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it wasn't an accident this guy did it
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this was deliberate and it wasn't
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okay that's the gentleman's bunk right
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there his name was Clayton Hartwig that
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was signed by his sister
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and this is not official policy of the
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ship but there are a number of us who
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care about this and care about his
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memory and we every time we get down
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here we check and make sure that the
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light is on on his bunk gun two turret
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two yeah that means those racks these
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three the three over there and the three
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over here these are dead men
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this is a dead
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zone these are guys who lost their lives
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in that accident
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wow and that's rather
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sobering yeah I'm going to do the side
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step
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motion easier that way going down yes it
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is
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here note the crossover
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pipe you use the steam twice goes
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through the high press turbine comes
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through the crossover pipe and you blow
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it into the low pressure turbine you get
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two passes off the
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stuff red is a
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Stern and that's how you you know
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turning that wheel is is what gives you
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the steam input and the RPMs and the
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speed what happens when one of these
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steam pipes breaks and if you're in this
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corner yes you're not getting out Bingo
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you
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die and that is something that is not
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unique to this ship that is the state of
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existence of
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Engineers and when you're doing this
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stuff you're 20 and
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indestructible and you don't think about
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it but you know it and your buddy knows
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about it it's in the back of your mind
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it's in that dark recess doesn't come
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out very often and you don't cry about
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it because he's not crying for Mommy
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you're not crying for mommy am I going
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to cry for
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mommy but you know it you don't think
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about it but the reality is Snipes
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Engineers when things on warships go
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wrong these guys The Men Who sail below
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die
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you see all these valves all these
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lines it looks very incomprehensible
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doesn't
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it kind of confusing kind of confusing
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when you come down when you're new and
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you come down in these spaces for the
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first time what you say to yourself is
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my God I will never learn all
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this and what happens is you're down
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here and you're working with this stuff
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and believe it or not you get to the
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point where every single valve every
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single line down here you know what it
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is you know what it does you absorb it
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and it becomes part of
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you now we're over in that other corner
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I told you
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about because this right here is the
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escape trunk
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this is how you get out in an
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emergency this is seawater
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induction this is Grace's baby the build
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Dragon this thing pumps something like
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20,000 gallons a minute this goes out
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the bottom of the ship there's a scoop
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down there and this Scoops up sea
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water and takes it in there and blows it
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through there underneath the turbine
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where it goes through a bunch of little
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tubes you see all the
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tubes oh yeah so these are
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condensers and you've got cold sea water
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running through the tubes and then the
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steam the used steam hits those old
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tubes and turns back into liquid if you
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want to sabotage a
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ship if you want the ship to not move
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this is where you do it you throw a
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handful of bolts in there you throw a
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wrench in there you throw a paint
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scraper in there and those gears get
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honked up go crunch crunch this ship
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ain't going anywhere you think that's
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where they got the turn throw a monkey
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wrench in it could
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be normally this would be closed up but
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you can
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see inside the steam
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drum yeah this would be half full of
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water and half full of
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steam over here on the left on the left
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of this pipe you see those oval holes
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those big holes oh yeah right right
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along there that's where water goes down
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into the
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boiler oh yeah I see them okay so the
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water level in a boiler
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critical if the water level in here is
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too high the steam you get what's called
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carryover and that steam will go over to
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the engine rooms the water will hit the
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turbine blades and you'll destroy the
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turbines the superheated side this is
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the saturated side saturated steam is
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wet steam superheated steam is dry steam
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what that means it is steam with no
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water in
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it that is where hell
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happens you have what's called a goose
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neck and inside the burner
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tip is what's called a sprayer plate the
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oil is spinning in that area that's
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actually called the whirling chamber and
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on this side you get a
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cone of atomized oil spraying out and
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that cone is on fire big time
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I take a lighting off torch this is
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going to have a bunch of asbestos
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rope tight around it doesn't sound safe
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asbestos it is what it is doesn't burn
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okay doesn't burn you know you're not
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you're not licking it you're not rubbing
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it on your face it's dipped in jet fuel
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and you get out your Zippo lighter and
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you light it on fire so this is burning
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like a torch like a Roman torch I hit
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this now oil goes in and cuz fires in
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there it catches on fire poof fires are
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lit I withdraw this put it in the dump
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can put the fire
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out close the
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door and do my air
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adjustment and you're done and the fires
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are lit like someone's written something
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here carv something into the
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desk let me
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see I don't know what it says start my
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heart Kickstart My heart mly crew yeah
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mly Crew That's a mly crew lyric okay
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Kickstart My Heart here's the
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brominator yeah yeah it's the
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brominator the brominator 7 this is an
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old piece of Machinery right here we've
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got green seawater we've got blue
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freshwat we've got red firem
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man fuel oil again green lines sea water
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looking this is where you shoot the guns
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from these are 100%
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analog this is not digital these are the
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triggers here but these are the triggers
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if you were to pull that that is the
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hand firing key this is automatic and
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this is Salvo what these switches are
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for is to line up all the different guns
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and equip and and and Fire Control
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equipment on the ship that means number
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one turret inside the turret locally can
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fire number three turret aft and vice
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versa it all depends on how you line
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these switches up this is a roster of
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everyone who work in this department
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on VJ Day Tokyo
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bay look at the
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workmanship that looks like it was done
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on a
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typewriter what year would you say this
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was that's VJ
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Day that's World War II oh yeah there
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you go
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if you look over here there's a couple
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of uh these circular tubs in World War
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II these were quad 40 guns those are the
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ones everybody's
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seen in the World War II news reels the
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pom pom guns
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wow that's awesome
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where did you get in there oh we're
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going in oh heck yes I like
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in this is the lever that you pull you
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will
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probably I pull this down it's going to
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go down am I safe right here yes you are
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okay oh yeah now the gun's
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open now what we would do a 5- in
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canister and
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and that gets put here put up in here
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and you ram it with your hand the can
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trips the PWS and the block comes
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up holy cow that was loud with even
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nothing in it there's a person sitting
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over there with a foot
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pedal right over in that little hole yep
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right over in that little hole and they
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would press on the foot pedal and what
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the foot pedal
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does I can do like
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bang what does that mean long passages
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well that's it's a long passage it's a
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long passage that's that's significant
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distance I believe Disney drew that I
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could be wrong
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but that that was a real historic piece
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I know what those are these yeah those
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are fuses no okay I'm wrong I was vacuum
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tubes oh I meant I meant to say they
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were vacuum tubes that's what I meant to
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say One hand for your equipment one hand
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for you okay and watch your head and
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watch your back it's like something that
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Harry Potter would use like a like a
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wand indeed po that's the
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BGE that's the bottom of the compartment
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so when you see a rodent in here you
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would be like there there's a build drat
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the
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Iron Keep hit I keep hitting my head
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that's what I get for being a tall guy
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walking through here you're taller than
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me how tall are you 6 6' 3 yeah I keep
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cranking my head on these
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things how does it take to do undo one
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of these screwdrivers right here well
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yeah you see they're they're just
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um it's a noise maker for kids that's
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right so you know what this is used for
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right no number two pencils number two
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pencils what is the noise we're hearing
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now uh that actually is the bosen's call
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for lunch I'm kind of
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hungry well yeah
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um you going through there
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J holy moly it's safe to say I know what
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this is it is safe yeah it's safe to say
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I know what this item is okay so people
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will say when the guns shoot ship moves
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sideways and that's not true no no no no
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no no no no no so you're breaking myths
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today
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yes come on I Didn't Do
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It is that your reaction to being in the
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brig yeah I do anything you just go on
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the app and you can look all around the
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ship yep what's the name of the app
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Battleship Iowa and the crowd go goes
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ooh that's about what I did when that
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thing made that noise right
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there made that noise