Given an audio headset, worked all the time and plenty of information given. Take your own time exploring through the submarine from stem to stern. Not my first time on a sub but the audio was helpful and it was a very interesting tour.
The Blowfin is a Balao class submarine and named after a voracious and predatory fish. Well named as she racked up a total of 44 ships sunk during the nine patrols she undertook in WW2. As the audio says the crew felt she was a lucky ship as no lives were lost, however beside the sub is a memorial to all 52 subs lost during the war, a total of 3500 men lost at sea.
Just by the Blowfin is a real coning tower that one can see and sit in as well as a set of periscopes for the visitors to use.
Time for lunch before the coach heads over to Ford Island and the two afternoon tours.
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