Hey Glenn Hogg! Look What I Saw!

Sail of the USS Dolphin in the San Diego gloaming

The USS Dolphin (AGSS-555) was the United States Navy's last operational diesel-electric deep-diving research and development submarine. She was commissioned in 1968 and decommissioned in 2007. She is now tied up to the pier at the Maritime Museum of San Diego. We paid her a visit on Monday.

The deepest diving submarine in the world, Dolphin is responsible for many "firsts", but is not primarily associated with any specific historic event or time frame during her nearly forty years of service. Rather, it is her unique, extreme deep-diving capability that sets her apart and has continually placed the vessel at the forefront of undersea naval research during her entire career. (Source)

She's cramped, claustrophobic, and complicated. In other words, she's a submarine. Pretty cool.

I think I see San Diego

The control room

The Helmsman's Station
(I suppose in the all new modern Navy that would be "Helmsperson." Sigh...)

Where's the turn signal on this thing?

No, that's not it!

The Missus Herself and The Nuke negotiate a p-way.

I shudder to think of what Murphy might do with this.

These gauges are still pretty new!

Yeah, Dad, I'm sure one of these belonged to Glenn Hogg.
(Heh, ya never know!)

I was gonna send y'all a message!
(Couldn't find the dang key.)

I can picture Murphy playing with these.
(No doubt the museum did too. Hence the protective Plexiglas.)

Another locked area, what an untrusting bunch.
(Yup, the docents at the USS Midway warned them about Murphy.)

Where's the Keurig machine?

Ruh-roh. Someone left the safe open. MURPHY!

Roomy it ain't. But it is a pretty cool boat.

Thanks for the tip Glenn!