After a brief history of submarines, including some rumors and innuendo, this book provides a true story about a two-year commitment to diesel electric submarine life including stories aboard and abroad to foreign countries and the excitement, good, bad, and ugly on a six-month Western Pacific deployment. Sewer Pipe offers a glimpse into the life of one of the last generation of diesel electric submariners. In Steve Saint-Martin's memoir, Two Years in aSewer Pipe, we meet Steve as a high school graduate in 1969 from San Diego. He has no interest in going to Vietnam. He'd rather surf and chase pretty co-eds. When his low draft lottery number is drawn, he enlists in the U.S. Naval Reserve and goes to submarine school on the east coast. Trained as a Navy diver, Steve boards the USS Wahoo, a diesel-electric submarine and heads across the Pacific, visiting foreign ports. Two Years in aSewer Pipe is packed with the raw language and antics you'd expect from young sailors exploring their limits. Travel with Steve and his shipmates as they experience life under the sea in a "sewer pipe" while navigating the delightful dangers found in ports of call. Between Steve's love of surfing, and after his time with the Navy, the sea beckoned him to return for thirty years of adventures with Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Steve Saint-Martin donates 10% of the net profits of Two Years in aSewer Pipe to the Wounded Warriors Project(R).
After a brief history of submarines, including some rumors and innuendo, this book provides a true story about a two-year commitment to diesel electric submarine life including stories aboard and abroad to foreign countries and the excitement, good, bad, and ugly on a six-month Western Pacific deployment. Sewer Pipe offers a glimpse into the life of one of the last generation of diesel electric submariners. In Steve Saint-Martin's memoir, Two Years in aSewer Pipe, we meet Steve as a high school graduate in 1969 from San Diego. He has no interest in going to Vietnam. He'd rather surf and chase pretty co-eds. When his low draft lottery number is drawn, he enlists in the U.S. Naval Reserve and goes to submarine school on the east coast. Trained as a Navy diver, Steve boards the USS Wahoo, a diesel-electric submarine and heads across the Pacific, visiting foreign ports. Two Years in aSewer Pipe is packed with the raw language and antics you'd expect from young sailors exploring their limits. Travel with Steve and his shipmates as they experience life under the sea in a "sewer pipe" while navigating the delightful dangers found in ports of call. Between Steve's love of surfing, and after his time with the Navy, the sea beckoned him to return for thirty years of adventures with Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Steve Saint-Martin donates 10% of the net profits of Two Years in aSewer Pipe to the Wounded Warriors Project(R).
