HOW to think outside the Box in a Submarine – visit HMAS Ovens at WA Maritime Museum

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With everything else they had to learn, they had to fit through the hatch to go down into the submarine,

they had to acquire the skill of how to sleep on the purposely designed shorter bunks, how to breathe and live in close proximity to explosives and missiles, how to wash and use a toilet in a confined space, to sleep when they are told to, how to find their passage to the galley and pick up their food and reverse to their bunk, to become experienced in bringing on the submarine the right amount of supplies and how to safely dispose of the waste packed into caps via the TDU (which is fancy name for the Trash Disposal Unit, the garbage chute); and learnt how to live their daily life and do their duties by slithering through the narrow spaces and the bulkhead openings.

For them that was and is just a way of life, a life almost incomprehensible for us - without all the other things that we take for granted: breathing space, walking corridors, privacy, sight of the blue sky, smell of the wind, just to name a few.

I discovered the real meaning of if from an alternative point of view, which is - by going inside a submarine-turned museum and … trying to step through the doors.

And I guess, this is how we learn new things in life.

For me, well, I will always look outside the box whenever submarine and his submariners are mentioned or next time I watch one of those movies with submarines.

I definitely learnt to appreciate even more their sacrifice.