UNKNOWN WATERS: A FIRST-HAND ACCOUNT OF THE HISTORIC UNDER-ICE SURVEY OF THE SIBERIAN CONTINENTAL SHELF BY USS QUEENFISH (SSN-651)

摘要

This book deals with the under-ice Arctic voyage of the submarine USS +Italic Queenfish -Italic , the first of the Sturgeon class nuclear attack submarines, designed specifically to operate beneath the ice of the Arctic Ocean, and with a total complement of 105 men. Her captain, Alfred McLaren, was mandated to retrace the route of the submarine Nautilus from Bering Strait north to the North Pole, to compare ice conditions in 1970 with those reported by in 1958. Thereafter he was to carry out an under-ice survey of the Siberian continental shelf in the Laptev, East Siberian, and Chukchi seas.