Scott

So the short answer is all the trash, all the poop tanks, everything has to go overboard.

It gets emptied into the ocean.

There's big holding tanks called sanitary tanks or sand tanks.

And when they fill up, we got to put them overboard.

You can hear shrimp.

Shrimp are actually the loudest.

There's so much clicking and just random noises from them.

Swimming through a couple hundred gallons of fucking Navy waste.

Hundreds of pounds of waste.

The toilet system on a submarine is not like the flushing system at home.

It's not even like what you would see on an airplane where they have like the vacuum system.

There's essentially just two different valves.

So there's one at the top, which would bring in new water, and one at the bottom, which drains it down, and it just gravity falls into the holding tank.

There's no pressure to the system whatsoever.

So you're just replacing what's in the toilet with fresh water.

Dumb question.

Is there a grinder?

Because the bus has a grinder.

The trash system has like a compactor and then the sand tanks have filters and those filters do clog up.

So there's very strict requirements about what you're able to put into the toilets.