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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve
USS Triton (SSN-586), 'cause she sailed around the world - underwater! And under the command of the legendary Captain Edward L. Beach!
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Yes mine too, i read the book "Around the world Submerged" The voyage of the Triton by Captain Edward L. Beach. Great read, funny part when they rasie the scope and a native fisherman in a canoe spots it and thinks its some type of sea monster.
But yeah the first boat to go round the world submerged.
Anyone read
"Blind Mans bluff" The untold story of the cold war, tells of some brave daring skippers of that era when they were assigned to lay recording devices over the russian ph cables right in russian waters! (cable tapping operations in Okhotsk) The Seawolf was one of them assigned to these missions, according to US Navy was one of the oldest and most broken subs in the fleet. She went back to collect data from the recording devices 3 or 4 times. Which is a feat in its own. A few times they got depth charged by russian navy.
Not long after the russian navy found one of these recording devices over their cables, Later on they found out that there was a spy in the US navy selling information to the russians even tho one of the skippers for years had tried to tell the navy brass they refused to believe it. The russians new straight away the device was american made cause when they opened it up in small words its says "Made in America"
this device can be seen in a russian museum