Game, SETT and Match – It’s all over for the SETT Tank, Gosport

In a recent press release the Royal Navy announced the SETT Tank in Gosport was closing. They said:

“For the last time the team who teach submariners how to escape from a stricken boat gather at a Gosport landmark before the iconic structure closes.

…During the peak of usage in the 1960s and 70s, around 4,500 submariners every year made the daunting ascent – it’s thought the escape tank has been used more than 150,000 times in its 66-year life.

Today the tank is just one element of the...