who pepople is wording 24 hours
Answers
Answer:
More times than I can remember. When my submarine was in port I stood duty every third day - I rarely got a chance to sleep more than 2–4 hours on a duty day, and all too many were round-the-clock. Especially if I had the midwatch standing Shutdown Roving Watch. In fact, it usually ran longer than 24 hours as we normally had to work until at least noon - and sometimes a full day - on the day after our duty day.
At sea was more problematic. Most of the time we were able to catch 4 hours or so of rack time out of every 18, but things sometimes got busy. For example - say I stood the midwatch (midnight-6 AM) on a training day. I’d get off watch and get some breakfast, then have training on the morning watch (6-noon), drills on the afternoon watch (noon-6), and then have to stand the evening watch.
And sometimes things got even more interesting - if we had a fire or an equipment casualty then we could be up for a lot longer than 24 hours trying to get things back to normal. One of my shipmates was up over 36 hours straight trying to get our CO2 scrubber back working and another spent the same amount of time finding a way to get our evaporator working in circumstances in which we couldn’t run the high-pressure brine pump (it could be noisy).