
Unknown Waters
A First-Hand Account of the Historic Under-Ice Survey of the Siberian Continental Shelf by USS Queenfish
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Jack Chekijian
This audiobook tells the story of the brave officers and men of the nuclear attack submarine USS Queenfish (SSN-651), who made the first survey of an extremely important and remote region of the Arctic Ocean. The unpredictability of deep-draft sea ice, shallow water, and possible Soviet discovery all played a dramatic part in this fascinating 1970 voyage.
Covering 3,100 miles over a period of some 20 days at a laborious average speed of 6.5 knots or less, the attack submarine carefully threaded its way through innumerable underwater canyons of ice and over irregular seafloors, at one point becoming entrapped in an "ice garage". Only cool thinking and skillful maneuvering of the nearly 5,000-ton vessel enabled a successful exit.
The most hazardous phase of the journey began 240 nautical miles south of the North Pole with a detailed hydrographic survey of an almost totally uncharted Siberian shelf, from the northwestern corner of the heavily glaciated Severnaya Zemlya Archipelago to the Bering Strait via the shallow, thickly ice-covered Laptev, East Siberian, and Chukchi seas.
The skipper of the Queenfish had been trained and selected by Admiral Hyman Rickover and, inspired by this polar experience, McLaren became one of the world's foremost Arctic scientists, studying first at Cambridge University and then obtaining his doctorate in physical geography of the Polar Regions from the University of Colorado at Boulder.
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It is also a brief of McLaren's professional life and gives some insight into naval life and politics for those of us who have never been in that field. And how many of us could really have willingly faced the dangers, boredom, and claustrophobia of such a life. Not important to most, but one of those was a man who served as SONAR technician. This man had a masters degree from Juilliard in the cello!
If you have any interest in Arctic exploration, submarines, and the evolution of such adventures, you will, indeed, enjoy this well-written book.
Jack Chekijian did an outstanding performance and probably deserves a medal just for his facility in pronouncing all of the Russian place and explorer's names. Hearing this book was a marvelous experience.
For naval and arctic explorers and Cussler fans
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