NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — Submarines are a nuclear weapon used in the United States Navy, with sailors aboard, loading torpedoes. This job is hard to fathom, with usually 150 sailors in tight quarters for months at a time.

News 2’s Shelby Mac got to tour the USS Pasadena, which is now shoreside in Norfolk, Virginia.

She got to tour a C-9 room, meaning there are nine beds, but sometimes sailors on submarines don’t get the luxury of their own bed.

“So, a lot of these guys are hot racking, so we don’t have enough racks to support the whole crew on board so you’ve got to share racks so it’ll be two or three people per rack so they know when their off going time is, somebody is sleeping in their bed,” said Culinary Specialist Submarine First Class CSS1-SS Noah Kvochick.

The all-male sailors on the USS Pasadena have gotten close from sharing such tight spaces.  

“I always have like a think small mentality, so like, I’m a bigger guy, so the sub’s very small, so you kind of got to in the corners, get in the side, let people pass,” he said.

One of the perks of being on the submarine? They are known for superior chow, or food, onboard.

“It’s a lot of from-scratch cooking, so you don’t have the room, the space to hold the food like premade items, so everything is from scratch. Making bread from scratch, cookies from scratch, desserts from scratch, and that's the way I love to cook.”

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