“Each year he grows more restless, the salt flows through his veins/ But the depths are for the young, not the old with many pains.” Soul of a Submariner by John Chaffey. The above couplet sums up the self-immolating temerity of those silent prowlers who risk death and discomfort by moving intrepidly across the ocean currents in the stygian gloom of sea depths. [bs-quote quote=”Each year he grows more restless, the salt flows through his veins/ But the depths are for the young, not the old with many pains.” style=”style-8″ align=”center” color=”#dd0000″ author_name=”John Chaffey” author_job=”Soul of a Submariner”][/bs-quote] Life under the sea is not for the fainthearted; it takes a special breed to come up to the verity of John Chaffey’s poetic tribute to the submariners. Life in a submarine is tough and risky. It conjures a scene from Titanic when the band plays, “Nearer my God to Thee” before sinking – a far cry indeed from the happy utopia depicted in a famous song sung by the Beatles, ‘Yellow submarine’. For a country like Pakistan – which is faced with the threat of a much larger and aggressive Indian navy – submarines are the ultimate levellers. The fear of … Continue reading The Ghazi Saga