Submarine commanding officer courses—called "perishers"in the vernacular of the submarine service—have great difficulty in getting submarines to carry out"perisher" courses for future commanding officers.
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The course, still run, is known as theperisherdue to its high failure rate, and that failure means an end to a career on submarines.
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