 Welcome to All Hands Update. Here's what's happening around your Navy. The All Hands team took a road trip to tell you about Naval Submarine Base New London, Connecticut. The base is known as the Navy's primary East Coast submarine base. From the basic enlisted submarine school to high-risk evolutions, sailors learn exactly how to escape a submarine from beneath the ocean waves. What we do here is we teach real-time submarine escape. Knowing how subs operate, it's never in a good place. It's never in the Caribbean. It's always somewhere you don't want to be. They're taught basic diving physiology. You know what happens to your body when you're under pressure. It involves having gas-filled spaces in your body expanding to the point where they rupture. So we teach them to never ever hold their breath during submarine escape. If they were to hold their breath, that could lead to many different problems, death being the most serious. To view the whole story, visit the All Hands Magazine website.