They receive special privileges for serving on submarine. Aye-aye, captain courteous. If you think visiting a submarine is uncomfortable, imagine trying to live in one. Soviet sailors were allowed a one-minute shower, in saltwater, every third day. Three men would take turns sleeping eight hours each on a thin bed pad whose sheets were jettisoned after a week.
Scorpion has three toilets, two washroom sinks, little elbow room and no place for anyone to hide.
No one, that is, except the political officer. Foxtrot submarines, in addition to possessing creature discomforts, posed considerable dangers for their officers and crews. Cold War missions were tense affairs with potentially enormous ramifications. Playing cat and mouse with enemy ships could become a delicate dance with fate, especially when subs went deep. Scorpion often dove to and rested some 800 feet below the surface.