A new report offers a rare look at the conditions in China's growing submarine fleet. It found the crews suffer from excessive noise, poor lighting and bad air quality. The question is whether these ...

Inside the commissioning of the USS Iowa submarine and a look at Navy sub school. We travel to Connecticut for the commissioning of the USS Iowa submarine. While we were there, we also got a ...

A bunkroom on a Trident ballistic missile submarine. The crew broke the monotony of submarine life with pranks. (Photo courtesy of David Chetlain) “Hey, Eeyore, we need to do something big,” Jim Gover ...

A bunkroom on a Trident ballistic missile submarine. The crew broke the monotony of submarine life with pranks. (Photo courtesy of David Chetlain) Editor’s note: This commentary was first published in ...

One of the hardest aspects of submarine life was the isolation from the rest of the world—the subs sometimes not surfacing for weeks. “You can get crushing loneliness,” Wise said. “It was very, very ...