San Francisco Maritime National Park Association

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What was a time you did something just for the raw experience of it? Looking at the first image here... where in the world do you think Ranger JR is? He is tigh...tly enclosed by piping, valves, and machinery. He cannot fully stand up and in simply getting to his location he had to perform some contortionism. This is a space on the museum submarine USS Pampanito (SS-383), run by the San Francisco Maritime National Park Association. You can see the exact spot in the second image showing the ship plans of the Pampanito’s sister ship USS Sand Lance. Located at Pier 45 in San Francisco, Rangers occasionally visit the Pampanito and on one occasion, we really wondered what it was like to actually maneuver ourselves into this space in the forward engine room, outboard of the starboard diesel engine. This is a space the crew of the boat occasionally would have needed to crawl into for maintenance and repair needs. We wondered What was that experience like? So, we decided to find out. Cramped and claustrophobic indeed! Though we were fortunate not to need to do this at sea or in the rough conditions that the crew had to deal with. When was a time your appreciation of something went sky-high after having attempted it yourself?

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