My favorite Navy trainer of all time was for submarine battle damage. Imagine a watertight mock-up of a ten-foot section of submarine hull, with twenty or thirty pipes of varying diameters inside. Lock two trainees inside, with a collection of bandy-clamps and one wrench for each trainee.
When the water pressure is turned on, pre-made "leaks" begin doing their thing and start flooding the "submarine". The trainees attempt the impossible task of patching the leaks. If you don't start with the leaks on the pipes nearest to the deck, they are soon underwater and so is your work... Lights go off at some point. Instructors bang on the hull with hammers, require you to make periodic battle damage reports. When your make a battle damage report, they ask Irrelevant and irreverent questions. Training session stops when water reaches the top and there's very little room for the trainees to breathe. Great fun! WILTON <wilt...@nc.rr.com> wrote: >Yep, sort of - while the water is spraying wildly around them and >rising >past their knees, etc. ;<) > >Wilton > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Max" <meadedil...@bellsouth.net> >To: "Mercedes Discussion List" <mercedes@okiebenz.com> >Sent: Saturday, May 04, 2013 8:52 PM >Subject: Re: [MBZ] 8 Water Pipe Clamp - Bing Images > > >> Thanks for the ideas and your off-list reply. >> >> In the Navy they are used to repair battle damage and are called >"bandy >> clamps". >> >> I know of two hardware stores that might carry them, will have to see > >> what's in stock. >> -- >> Max Dillon >> Charleston, SC >> '95 E300, '87 300TD, '73 Balboa 20 >> >> _______________________________________ >> http://www.okiebenz.com >> For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com >> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >> >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > >_______________________________________ >http://www.okiebenz.com >For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com >To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > >To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com -- Max Dillon Charleston, SC '95 E300, '87 300TD, '73 Balboa 20 _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
