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Grebb embraces undersea life
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Seaman Chase Grebb poses with his mother, Camille, after graduating from submarine training with the U.S. Navy.
Chase Grebb, a 2003 graduate of Quincy High School, has found a way to see the world.
He never imagined where he would be today when he was driving a pea combine for National Frozen Foods. Grebb first found a love for the water when he left his job to play violin with a string quartet on Princess Cruise Lines. He traveled around the world even then, going mainly to Europe and Asia.
Grebb recently graduated from training at New London Submarine Base in Groton, Conn.
His parents, Tom and Camille Grebb, headed back to the East Coast to join him. Although Chase wanted to show them around Boston, Hurricane Irene foiled their plans and they returned Saturday, Aug. 27.
He returns to service on Sept. 12, and can’t wait to get underway and start sailing. He is classified as a sonar technician or Seaman STS-SN.
“My job is to detect, track and classify anything that I hear on the sonar. Sound travels really well through water. It’s incredible what you can hear,” said Grebb. Once he starts his duty, he will set sail on the USS Annapolis 760, which spends six to eight months out of the year moving from port to port. They will go as far as Italy and Bahrain.
“It is cramped and small inside, just the way you would expect it to be,” he said. He likes the idea of being on a submarine because they are multifunctional and can go anywhere. To him it’s the best job in the world, because you can wake up in the morning and look out to the open ocean at your door.
Coming back to Quincy gives him time to relax from his regimented schedule. “I am on vacation. It is nice not having to get up and do anything. I like the change to dry heat over here. I also enjoy the small town atmosphere,” said Grebb.
