# Can a submarine turn upside down? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [January 30, 2014, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-submarine-turn-upside-down/680123 "2014-01-30T11:50:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2014, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-submarine-turn-upside-down/680123/81 "2014-02-05T04:44:17Z")
> [@Ranger\_Jeff](#): > > I did a year long tour at a LORAN A station on San Salvador, Bahamas. There were 14 Coasties there and, by the treaty, 2 indigenous personnel. The Old Man was a LTJG. It was considered “Isolated Duty”. We had to make our own electricity and provide our own water (there was a rain catchment and maybe a well also). Since the nearest hospital was a 2 hour flight away via air ambulance (after it took 2 hours flying to reach us), we always had a very competent and experienced HM1s (Hospital Corpsmen 1st Class) assigned to us. He’d have been able to take care of MrAru. Between Doc and the Government Nurse, that generally was it for medical care on San Sal (pop 750). He is pretty easy to take care of, just give him his prednisone and a whole bunch of Burow’s Solution and leave him alone. If he is willing to sleep on the sofa, he can use cortisone cream [I have an issue with topical cortisone so I need to avoid touching him when he is all yucky with it.] Luckily most enlisteds tend to be younger and pretty healthy - but I love the ID corpsmen I have run into training at the base hospital. back when I had 3 months of wound care they ran a fair number of them into my cubical when I was in for my weekly follow up visit. I may bitch about tri-care, but when I had a tumor go from pea size to ping pong ball size in 30 days, it took them a week to get the diagnostics done and me into surgery. And they do pick up the bill for something like $3000 in medications a month to keep my sorry ass above ground. [and they will be ripping out my gall bladder later in the summer unless it explodes or something earlier.] [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-submarine-turn-upside-down/680123.md?page=4)