The LRC has a range of different study spaces, including group, quiet and silent areas, and around 130 computer workstations.

As it happened, two of the silent areas were the portside catwalk on the flight deck and the midships area of the 0-3 level, where the waist catapult control rooms were located.

The silent areas may not have been particularly popular, as you say, but this is due to the minimal heating in these quiet study rooms, and most of these spaces do not even allow electronic equipment such as laptops inside.