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Submarine accommodation carries a personnel cost

Cramped submarine living conditions are connected with extra pay, repeated deployments and difficult personnel retention.

Notes

Submariners accept confined accommodation for months while their boat remains submerged. Extra pay accompanies a demanding way of life. The comparison links that strain and repeated deployments with faster crew turnover than in surface service, without providing numerical rates. Submarines also avoid some of the visiting-official duties expected of surface ships.