But while this is true, service aboard United Stated submarines has remained closed to women, and that that is the way that Navy leaders want it to stay. Another piece of information in this article, even hinted on the male sailors not wanting females on board the subs because their excuse was that Submarines are and never will be a place for experimenting with gender integration. According to a panel that met in the summer of two thousand and two stated that allowing female officers to serve on the U.S. navy's submarines would be a mistake this late into the submarine program, and it was unanimously voted that women should be kept out of subs until a larger, newer submarine class come out of production until then females should not even be considered for approval onto United Stated submarines (online).
Due to all of this bickering, the United States war department, after much disagreement, sent a female sailor on board a trident nuclear submarine for a trial test to see how a woman would measure up under the stress of which a normal submarine sailor is put through. According to the reports, a water hose broke while running deep off of Western Australia, and that it took two and a half hours just to get the sub underway again. The reports also stated that while the pipes burst, a crewman was knocked down and became unconscious for two hours, in the compartment that was flooding, and almost drowned. Reports go on to say that if it had not been for the efforts of some five sailors who had to pry the door open to get to the unconscious sailor, the sailor would have died. Reports of this sub test also told of welds within two sections of the submarine burst, which meant that the submarine could never be used again in deep water in which it was made for. Come to find out these reports were all false and made up dude to an attempt to sabotage the tests, and the report committee were thrown in jail (online).