SMIU holds a Guest Speaker session with Vice Admiral (Retd.) Shah Sohail Masood HI (M), Managing Director Bahria Foundation on the topic “Life of a Submariner”
Have you ever thought that what is a submarine, how does it float on water surface and suddenly go under the water and how is the life of a Submariner, to answer all these questions and share some more information about the life of a submariner SMIU organized a guest speaker session with Vice Admiral (Retd.) Shah Sohail Masood HI (M), Managing Director Bahria Foundation in Sir Shah Nawaz Bhutto Auditorium on the topic of “Life of Submariner”
Vice Admiral (Retd.) Shah Sohail Masood addressed the students, teachers, faculty members and said that submariner’s life is not easy, we spend our life inside a steel cylinder where we don’t have appropriate living facilities; Submariner has higher chances of getting skin disease due to unavailability of sunlight, and for more than forty people only one toilet is available. In submarine only rice is available to eat and we are force/compel to eat it; he added
Mr. Masood further said that this is high time to share our experiences and knowledge with others as common people don’t know much about the life of submariner, being a submariner is very tough, apart from the danger, crews have to spend months away from their families, often cut off from the world for weeks in cramped conditions.
He said all over the world submariners get many benefits and in Pakistan too, but still only few people eagerly join this field because this is a voluntary job. Hangor (name of submarine) is a living memory which is preserved in Pakistan Maritime Museum. Four more submarines will come from China and four will be made indigenously and one will be named Hangor.
While Concluding the session Honorable Vice Chancellor of SMIU, Dr. Muhammad Ali said “I am thankful to Vice Admiral (Retd.) Shah Sohail Masood to share his life time experience with us, we know about the life of a submariner through watching movies only but actually what happens in their real life, we came to know today”.
Those who take life as a commitment they touch the sky, today’s era is called fifth generation war in which people are demoralized, so our youth has to play their role and learn as much as they can from the lives of people like Mr. Masood.
He pointed out to the students and said that You are studying at an institution where eminent people had studied like Quaid e Azam, Sir Shah Nawaz Bhutto and many more who never fought physically but always fought with the arguments. On that occasion a presentation was shown on the Life of Submariner, later, a question answer session was also held.