Howdy Alex,

The smell is a combination of the chemicals used in the Co2 scrubbers, O2 generators, cooking, lubricates for rotating machinery, 130 odd bodies, and sanitary tank odors being circulated for the time you are underway and submerged. Hence the nicknames of sewer pipe or pig boat sailor.

Tom Rux

> On 03/31/2021 12:40 PM Alex Goodwin <xxxxxx@multitel.com.au> wrote:
>
>
> On 31/3/21 10:58 pm, Thomas RUX wrote:
> > Morning Phil from Roy, WA
> >  
> > The crews of submarines returning from sea have a funky smell in their
> > clothes and body for a couple of weeks after returning to port.
> > Married crew members when they went home usually had to leave their
> > seabags and all clothing outside the first couple of days before they
> > where allowed to bring them in for a washing.
> >  
> > Tom Rux
>
> Tom,
>
> Was that because of the amine(s) used to scrub CO2 from the sub's
> atmosphere?
>
>
> Alex
>
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