Re: Cramped Engine Rooms

	Steve Higginbotham commented in reply to my first defense of
the cramped engine spaces rule:

>George, in the boats we did maintenance 24 hours a day.  One watch on,
>one watch maintenance, one watch asleep.  From the time the boat left
>port till after it returned.

	I would argue that current submarines qualify for the Cramped Spaces
rule, thus validating it rather than voiding it 8-)
	The US Subs have about 20% less work space than surface ships
do for the same amount of machinery (rough estimate from n-tens of plans
I've been priviledged to look over while I was at school in Naval Architecture)
so they would exemplify the "moderately cramped" rule.  Surface ships do not
in general operate under the same 3 full watch system as subs do, at least
the ones whose crews and officers I've talked with.  Nearly everyone
keeps relatively normal sleeping hours...
	Soviet subs... well, (ugh yuck) they're real cramped.  30% or more
less space than desirable.

- -george william herbert