Posted on 02/06/2008 3:23:12 PM PST by SmithL
LONDON, United Kingdom (AP) -- The British military said Wednesday it will no longer use goats in experiments to gauge the risks of evacuating a submerged submarine.
The tests, conducted for years by the Ministry of Defense, involved herding the animals into a special chamber and then drastically changing the air pressure.
Defense minister Derek Twigg said the tests, which were suspended in March 2007, had provided valuable safety information to submarine crews. But a review concluded that no more experiments were needed, though the military said in a statement it could revisit the issue.
The tests were meant to simulate what sailors would experience should they need to evacuate a submerged submarine. The difference in pressure between the deep sea and the surface can cause fatal decompression sickness, often referred to as the bends.
Goats were chosen because of their physiological similarities to human beings.
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Goats on Boats Ping!
Are they really going to replace the Goat with a mohammedan? No similarity there.
Heck, I didn’t even know they did testing on Chiefs. Explains a lot, though.
If I’d known, I would have stayed up to study.
There goes the Goat Locker.
What about the smell?
They’ll get used to it, just like we did.
I’ve heard of tigers going on a submarine cruise, but this is the first I’ve heard of goats.
You never made it to the Chiefs’ Quarters, huh?
No, but I sat at the Chief’s table. I also found out what corn on the COB is. :-)
I took a three day Tiger Cruise on my son’s boat in December. We were told we could go anywhere on the boat except the nuke area. I made it as far as the yeoman’s office, but didn’t even think about going into the Chief’s Quarters. If my son makes Chief before he gets out next February, I might take a look at the Chief’s Quarters then.
My son is a nuke and I have always been dissappointed that he could not show me his duty area. I felt better about it, though, when the Captain’s dad told me even he couldn’t go there. And he’s a retired warrant officer.
Attached is an article about the change in command on my son’s boat.
http://www.navy.mil/search/display.asp?story_id=34739
>Goats were chosen because of their physiological similarities to human beings.<
Of course (slaps head). The difference is when humans drown we yell “AAAAAH”, and goats go ‘BAAAAAAAAAA’.
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