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Saturday, April 9, 2011

Inside the nuclear submarine........

nuclear submarine, which can be accessed simply, not a military man? Then welcome to the photo tour of the museum "Cité de la Mer" in the French Cherbourg.

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Cherbourg - a city on the shores of the Channel in the north Cotentin Peninsula (Normandy). Many of the city is known on the phrase "Cherbourg Umbrellas self titled movie released in 1964. In the cruise terminal, the city has a museum "Cité de la Mer" - "City of the Sea", a little walk around the city, we went there.

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The museum consists of two large buildings and a major exhibit, exhibited in the street. Now we are in the first hall, where there is a gift shop, bookstore, bathyscaphe, entrance tickets.

Travel blogs Vladimir Filippov. France, Cherbourg.

Go outside into the courtyard - are exposed to another bathyscaphe and the world's largest nuclear submarine, which can reach the common man.

Travel blogs Vladimir Filippov. France, Cherbourg.

That's the boat, it's called Redoutable, translated from French - terrible. It was founded in November 1964, was commissioned in March 1967 and joined the French Navy in December 1971.

Travel blogs Vladimir Filippov. France, Cherbourg.

In order that would get inside the boat to defend a great place, but we were lucky, inside the boat, we were virtually alone, so I was able to photograph the empty halls and corridors.

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Before entering you take a special player, which is very common in European museums . It is a numeric keypad, you put on your headphones and wander the halls, at the entrance to the hall hangs a number you want to type on the keyboard. After dialing in the headphones automatic audio guide tells you interesting stories. For example, this control room of reactor turbines.

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On this panel displays the various parameters of temperatures in the loop reactor. Apparently, after the situation with Japan, everyone already knows that a nuclear reactor - a boiler is passed through water, which boils and the steam pressure turns the turbines, which are already developing the energy necessary for the boat or at a power plant that would send its customers .

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Reduction unit - a device that lowers blood pressure. How exactly does it work on a nuclear submarine, I do not know, but if you know it all will not tell, as this - a military secret. :)

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This is the main "control panel" a boat, we are called BCH-[number] (BSc - warhead), they have similar terminology, I have not noticed, simply are the numbers of sections. By the way, all the equipment on the boat was kept exactly in the form in which it was at the end of operation. The only exception - fully dismantled bay with an atomic reactor.

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This equipment is desalination, the neighborhood - Equipment filling and flushing of ballast tanks due to their submarine floats or sinks.

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Pay attention to the length of the corridor housing compartment. Gen. submariner, of course, not so hot. Here, of course, very closely, the atmosphere presses. Even in the cabins of "governance" is not particularly razverneshsya, this is not an aircraft carrier or even more cruise ship .


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It is part salon to relax fighters. Interestingly, the camera, which hangs at the top right, hung out there during the operation of the boat, or came there after turning it into a museum. About the cabin and rest - I have heard that even in our submarine fleet to give, depending on rank, a certain amount of wine. Interestingly, as much as his drink on the boat the French, known for his passion for wine from dinner time?

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This is a galley on a submarine. Incidentally, the total weight of the boat - 8 tons. Its length - 128 m, diameter - 10 m. The number of members - 135 people. Speed ​​- 20 knots, which developed the engine capacity of 16 thousand horsepower.

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And this - shop harvesting and storage products. I wonder where they store the wine? Whether the French engineer, I would do for a tank of wine, one cubic meter per day of transition. Apparently, so they decided to make its nuclear that would make way for the tanks of wine, instead of the tanks with diesel fuel (just kidding).

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Boats were armed with ballistic missiles with a range of M1 lesions up to 2 thousand km. In 1974 they were replaced by new missiles, M2, and then to the M20 - each missile could deliver a nuclear warhead capacity of 1 Mt, at a distance of up to 3 thousand miles. The boat was withdrawn from service in December 1991 and placed on the slipway to the museum shortly before its opening in 2002.

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We walked inside the boat for over an hour, then across the bow section went back to the exhibition complex. Right young people look at Europe's largest aquarium. Some time after this trip, I visited the world's largest aquarium , located in Atlanta, USA.

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In the exhibition hall are gathered various exhibits about the conquest of the sea depths.

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In the showcase with the device for scuba divers can see the reflection of the photographer. :)

Travel blogs Vladimir Filippov. France, Cherbourg.

Transparent fish. Title not know.

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Europe's biggest aquarium in full growth. The height of the aquarium - 10 pm

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Near a swimming pool with stingrays. If you climb the ladder and climb up into the "bathyscaphe" (in the background), we can look at the skates out from under the water. It only works if you are a child. :)

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On the way back to look at the courtyard with a different point. In the distance could be seen marina for sailing yachts and catamarans.

Travel blogs Vladimir Filippov. France, Cherbourg.

At the exit of the museum, in the parking lot, was discovered by machine with the Indian numbers. Not entirely clear how it got here on the western-most part of France to the shore of La Manche.

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This post I open a series about our small tour in Europe in August, when we visited France, Belgium and Switzerland. In the next post I'll tell you about an interesting, important and widely visited Mont-Saint-Michel.

2011 © text and photos of Vladimir Filippov.


UPD: questions and answers.


Q: vrazhin these boats and they would sink the fleet of the USSR?
A: What does it? This - the boat museum. Where we are worth? Whatever could a child go and see venteli twist, a guide in 10 languages ​​of the world to hear, take pictures inside the calm and free, that would all be neatly in place, no need to go to the other end of the country for this and still have your boat site was official? Tell me, I is not known if there is - always at the weekend will go there, make a report.

Q: storytellers, "Where are we worth?" The Museum's submarine fleet in Russia (St. Liberty)
A: I understand that you know how to use search engines. About the boat on the street. Freedom, I know. Were you there? "The residential part of the submarine is very modest - better performance, given to her by the author of the press release, which you published. These things are absolutely impossible to compare.

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