The Nautilus-- December 19, 2005
 

Thought I'd post this pic I took of the Nautilus recently. It was COLD when I snapped this photo at 4:44PM Monday December 19, 2005.
If anyone would like a larger version for download, just let me know.

http://img383.imageshack.us/img383/5521/img35049yj.jpg

Ain't she beautiful? :cool:

She's still a stunner, that's for sure, great pic there :up: :up: :up:

Re: The Nautilus-- December 19, 2005
 

Absolutely! Could you e-mail a copy to my subguru mail addy, please?

can you send me some please? :ping:

The Nautilus-- December 19, 2005
 

Great picture, Docjonel! The kind of thing that makes Bill Nichols happy.
:up:

Re: The Nautilus-- December 19, 2005
 

:yep:

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

Only if I forget about Admiral Rickover, and his insistance that nothing be modified or otherwise improved during the course of her active duty. :-?

Not true! Nautilus had improvements in her reactor plant and weapons system, to name a few. We even carried Mk48 torpedos (as well as Mk37 and Mk14, the latter for exercise use, only). :arrgh!:

And, how 'bout this for a modification?

http://subguru.com/nautilus/nautilus-macs.jpg

The Nautilus-- December 19, 2005
 

What kind of mod is that?
(And who is the modder?)

From a recent speech by RADM Richard A. Riddell (Nautilus's last CO, who I served under):

"In the beginning of my three and a half years in command of Nautilus, we were involved with the Mobile Acoustic Communications System, or MACS, which was a research project to obtain fundamental data on long range propagation of sound. This project required a huge antenna on the after deck of the submarine. The antenna would transmit an acoustic signal to a receiving submarine or surface ship well over a hundred miles away, with multiple simultaneous signal frequencies, various antenna angles, different ocean bottom types, and a variety of weather conditions.

"My most vivid memory of our time with MACS was the ability of the human body to adapt to the ear-splitting acoustic signals that were transmitted every few seconds. This went on for days and weeks at a time. Somehow, we learned to live with this noise—to sleep, watch movies, and even play poker on Saturday nights."


I can confirm from personal experience the extreme tediousness of listening to this pinging, day after day, night after night. :dead:

Damn, that sounds awful Bill. I would have rather ridden the Seawolf 575 when it sported that giant doorstoper on her bow. :o

http://img253.imageshack.us/img253/6...75098hg.th.jpg
Quite possibly the stupidest looking modification of a submarine in history (well maybe second to the Whiskey Long Bin…)

And people say the Oberons sonar dome looks ugly :huh:

:lol: :lol: :lol:

If you look closely, 5th guy back from the MACS antenna the guy in khakis is me :sunny: