JT,
I WILL hold you to the finest traditions of being a TM and knowing more then most about Damage Control then most because we dealt with floodings, fire and what in the hell do we do with a weapon that has burst open(i.e. dropped or had something penetrate the casing) during movent and the weapon put EXPLOSIVES on the deck..
One of my favorite drills on a 688 was moving a weapon from the port side to the starboard side and the hydraulics line ruptured at the drain cock.. and then spewed hydraulics into the launch console and from there a FIRE on the starboard side of the room with weapons involved.
Immediate action taken was to secure ALL of the hydraulics in the room and then start to cool the weapons IF any on the starboard side of the room with one hose (starboard aft) and then use the Port side FWD hose to put out the fire. Reason behind that drill was to get us to think outside of the box and to make us think about how to successfuly fight a fire in the fwd AND aft part of the room on one side. (that used to be a TRE ooohly in Pac fleet in the early 90's)
Side note about the Mk 48 and it's little brother the Mk 48 ADCAP (or should I say the little brother on steroids?) when it got too hot the vent valve would release and it would blow otto fuel out to release the pressure so that it would not explode (and it needs NO air to combust)... One of the biggest things giving an OTTO fuel spill was the HEADACHE that went with it and the need for fresh air and no matter how much coffee was give or asprin it wouldn't go away until ALL of the otto fuel was cleaned up...
Witnessed a Mk 48 vent OTTO fuel once topside on a 688 and the fire dept was called and they wouldn't touch the thing because they were AFRAID of it... a number of us TM's laughed at them and brought the hoses we were using to load potable at the time from the pier and cooled the damned thing down until it quit venting

and then went about our business.
