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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SoonerP226" data-source="post: 4058164" data-attributes="member: 26737">The Balaos and Gatos were, but there’s a reason their predecessors were called Pig Boats.I’ve read the memoirs of a few WWII Pacific fleet submariners, and they were a special breed of cat. I remember one officer who said he pitied the nicotine fiends in the crew, but none of them, no matter how bad it got, would light up when they were submerged. Of course, part of that was because, after a few hours, you couldn’t—there wasn’t enough oxygen in the air to keep a cigarette lit.</blockquote>