One of my fond memories of Navy days was transferring at sea from a
Destroyer Escort to spend a day on the old USS Pickerel SS 524. The
Pickerel was one of the last diesel electric subs in commission at the time
(1969) and was famous in the old TV show that had her surfacing at a 42
degree angle, with much of the boat out of the water.

Our hosts on the Pickerel gave us quite an indoctrination to subs that day.
We made several dives and made an emergency accent due to "uncontrollable
flooding in the engine room". Of course, the CO of the sub purposely
neglected to inform us Destroyer types that it was just a drill.

The three of us that spent the day received honorary submariners
certificates and a set of dolphins for our jackets.

Eisboch