{"id":49067,"date":"2019-07-24T02:00:25","date_gmt":"2019-07-24T06:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=49067"},"modified":"2019-07-23T11:41:02","modified_gmt":"2019-07-23T15:41:02","slug":"sinking-ship-simulator-the-royal-navys-damage-repair-instructional-unit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2019\/07\/24\/sinking-ship-simulator-the-royal-navys-damage-repair-instructional-unit\/","title":{"rendered":"Sinking Ship Simulator: The Royal Navy&#8217;s Damage Repair Instructional Unit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xXC6U0NfJg8\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Tom Scott<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Published on Sep 7, 2015<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tomscott.com\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/tomscott.com<\/a> &#8211; with many, many thanks to the Royal Navy and everyone at <em>HMS Excellent<\/em>! <a href=\"http:\/\/royalnavy.mod.uk\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/royalnavy.mod.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>How do you train sailors to save a sinking ship? Sure, you can teach them the theory, but there&#8217;s no replacement for having to hammer softwood wedges into deck and bulkhead splits that are spraying cold, high-pressure water in your face.<\/p>\n<p>At <em>HMS Excellent<\/em> in Portsmouth sits Hazard, a Royal Navy Damage Repair Instructional Unit (DRIU). Every Navy recruit who&#8217;s going out to sea will have to go through something like this &mdash; and on a much harder level than we did! But then, they&#8217;ll have had months of training and teamwork beforehand&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>DIRECTED BY Matt Gray: <a href=\"http:\/\/mattg.co.uk\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/mattg.co.uk<\/a> &#8211; @unnamedculprit &#8211; see behind-the-scenes video at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zwlnbkzDKoY\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zwlnb&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>WITH:<br \/>\nPaul Curry &#8211; @cr3<br \/>\nMelinda Seckington &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/missgeeky.com\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/missgeeky.com<\/a> &#8211; @mseckington<\/p>\n<p>And again, with many thanks to all the Navy team who were so generous with their time and effort: <a href=\"http:\/\/royalnavy.mod.uk\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/royalnavy.mod.uk<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/royalnavy\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/twitter.com\/royalnavy<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Screenshot_2019-07-24-Sinking-Ship-Simulator-The-Royal-Navy\u2019s-Damage-Repair-Instructional-Unit.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Screenshot_2019-07-24-Sinking-Ship-Simulator-The-Royal-Navy\u2019s-Damage-Repair-Instructional-Unit-480x270.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-49809\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Screenshot_2019-07-24-Sinking-Ship-Simulator-The-Royal-Navy\u2019s-Damage-Repair-Instructional-Unit-480x270.png 480w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Screenshot_2019-07-24-Sinking-Ship-Simulator-The-Royal-Navy\u2019s-Damage-Repair-Instructional-Unit-150x84.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Screenshot_2019-07-24-Sinking-Ship-Simulator-The-Royal-Navy\u2019s-Damage-Repair-Instructional-Unit-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Screenshot_2019-07-24-Sinking-Ship-Simulator-The-Royal-Navy\u2019s-Damage-Repair-Instructional-Unit-853x480.png 853w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Screenshot_2019-07-24-Sinking-Ship-Simulator-The-Royal-Navy\u2019s-Damage-Repair-Instructional-Unit.png 930w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Scott Published on Sep 7, 2015 http:\/\/tomscott.com &#8211; with many, many thanks to the Royal Navy and everyone at HMS Excellent! http:\/\/royalnavy.mod.uk How do you train sailors to save a sinking ship? Sure, you can teach them the theory, but there&#8217;s no replacement for having to hammer softwood wedges into deck and bulkhead splits [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[30,61],"class_list":["post-49067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-military","tag-navy","tag-ships"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-cLp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49067"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49810,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49067\/revisions\/49810"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}