stackyFACTSIf you ever wondered why entering a submarine feels like climbing through a doggy door, it's a brutal form of quality control. The military designed the hatches to be restrictive so that overweight or physically inflexible sailors are naturally filtered out of serving in such dangerously tight quarters.
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