Submarine Damage Control Trainer

The device features mockups of multi-class submarine equipment to provide a realistic engine room environment to train submarine crew personnel in the emergency procedures required for ship damage control. The environmental simulation includes typical submarine sounds of pump operation through the startup, running and shutdown phases. Simulated ship damage consists of in flooding the training device engine room com-partment. Submarine type communication and alarm systems, Ban-dit-Kits, portable submersible pumps, and battle lanterns are used by the trainees to effectively react to the damage situa-tion. An upper level, above the engine room, provides a transi-tion environment and storage for submersible pump connections, and damage control equipment. A classroom is provided where trainees are given preliminary instructions in damage control and is later used to review and critique the trainees' damage control performance. An instructor monitors and controls the damage situation from the instructor's console. A closed cir-cuit television system provides a video tape recording of each exercise so that a trainee may reinforce his own learning expe-rience by examining his performance on tape as well as through the actual training exercise.