A Sub's Restricted Areas by sandra46

Photography • Military • posted on Jul 07, 2009

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This is the last of my posts on the Onondaga. These are images of the areas where white light cannot be used during some periods of time, the one restroom included.They are afraid that some moron forgets to switch the light off after the dropping, and the enemy can see it (the light, I mean). Red lighting is only switched on if the submarine is surfacing at night. This allows the eyes of the Officer of the Watch, and any lookouts, who will be going up on the bridge to adjust to the darkness before going up. Submarines use red lights inside for the same reason as ATC, aicraft control towers, planetariums, and some movie theaters use them. Your eyes adjust more quickly from red light to darkness than other color lighting. A red light has been the traditional choice for retaining night vision since before WWII when the military settled on red as the best choice. Recently, there has been a move to green and blue-green light, precipitated in large part by the military's change to green, which itself has been primarily motivated by the increased use of night vision equipment. As it turns out, green light also offers some advantages over red as a means to retain night vision capability. However, it isn't so easy. In fact, if you have a brighter light than you actually need, a brighter green light will generally have a more negative effect than an equally bright red light. Green or blue-green has a greater capacity to adversely effect night vision because the eye is about 100 times more sensitive to these colors, so even moderately too bright light can have a serious deleterious effect. Submarines, at least US subs, don't use red lights. Instead of "rigging for red", the control centers and SONAR shacks rig for "low level light." Red was found to cause aggression and blue was depressing (and hid some colors on the green waterfall displays). SONAR is always rigged this way and the control center does this before moving to periscope depth in the evenings, nights and early mornings. Red light has minimal effect on night vision because its energy level is so low that the eye doesn't register it strongly enough to produce a compensatory reaction. Red light has the longest, slowest wavelength of any form of visible light and thus the least energy--as you shift toward the blue end of the spectrum, wavelengths shorten and energy levels rise. Thank you for your kind comments.

Comments (40)

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flora-crassella

4:13PM | Tue, 07 July 2009

wonderful collage!!! Interesting work!!!!

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carlx

4:13PM | Tue, 07 July 2009

Cool collage!!!

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MOSKETON

4:17PM | Tue, 07 July 2009

FANTASTICAS IMAGENES, MUCHAS GRACIAS.

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Star4mation

4:19PM | Tue, 07 July 2009

Super images Sandra! I used to work in red light developing film from X-rays. (Electronic, not medical) I used to test night vision equipment too.

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danob

4:29PM | Tue, 07 July 2009

Makes for wonderfully colourful photography!

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jeroni

4:30PM | Tue, 07 July 2009

Splendid composition and colors my friend

lucindawind

4:46PM | Tue, 07 July 2009

beautifully taken !

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timtripp

4:51PM | Tue, 07 July 2009

WONDERFUL IMAGE GROUP!

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myquad

4:54PM | Tue, 07 July 2009

Great collage and VERY interesting commentary! Bravo!

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magnus073

4:57PM | Tue, 07 July 2009

Great pic here Sandra and I've really enjoyed this series

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ShadowsNTime

5:20PM | Tue, 07 July 2009

Ah yes! My boyfriend of nine years (before Alex) was in the navy and was Chief on a sub based in Seattle Wash. Very interesting to see this again and to read about it (I had forgotten much of what you wrote!), very well done collage and great info Sandra!

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Minda

5:48PM | Tue, 07 July 2009

This is great collage sandra and very interesting work!!

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pops

5:51PM | Tue, 07 July 2009

These are so cool

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brycek

5:57PM | Tue, 07 July 2009

Fantastic collage..well done!!

frankie96

7:04PM | Tue, 07 July 2009

Very informative narrative...and lots of color in the collage..well done..

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Sea_Dog

7:15PM | Tue, 07 July 2009

Very nice work. Lots of interesting info in the narrative and great images to go with it.

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Radar_rad-dude

8:37PM | Tue, 07 July 2009

A most exceptional set of photos and informative descriptive! Thanks again for sharing your travels! Most appreciated!

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Digitaleagle

11:23PM | Tue, 07 July 2009

Excellent facts and captures, well done!!!

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bmac62

2:55AM | Wed, 08 July 2009

This is a fine collage Sandra. My background is armor or armour...depending on your choice of spelling. We did the same thing in our tanks. I am very dated now regarding night vision equipment but the first forms of night vision devices were extremely hard on the eyes...made you feel like your eyes were being sucked out of their sockets. Those problems have been overcome quite awhile ago (years ago), but I'm not sure how.

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