Interesting issue with the nukes (68 class), the airconditioning requirements were ........
Good point, the new birdfarms such as the CVN 68 were far far superior to your average. Woefully I was long retired by the time the Nimitz hit the fleet.
However arriving to join the Tonkin Gulf Yacht Club aboard the Big T (USS Ticonderoga, CVA-14 (redesignated CVS-14 an end all do all birdfarm of McNamara fame)) conditions were a bit more primitive. And yes, the water intake to the evaporators (those machines that made fresh water from salt water, say for bathing) had to deal with elevated temps that lowered efficiency to the extent that fresh water for showers was not available, albeit they always seemed to have fresh water to wash down those damn airplanes. Now assemble 50 or so bodies in a berthing compartment, air conditioning? what was that?, and not having showered in say two weeks, now there was aroma. Lucky folks found a spot on the catwalk, if no flight ops were sked.
But then again, sailors just love to complain, about anything.