Category: Books
12/06/09
Submariners looking for a fast, fun, and fascinating read over the holidays might enjoy Todd Tucker’s new book Atomic America.The short book revisits the Idaho SL-11, 3MWt Boiling Water Reactor’s explosive energy excursion from the perspective of a f… more »
07/04/09
Peter Sasgen's Stalking the Red Bear improves the signal to noise ratio in the pseudonymous submarine true-story-fiction genre—bravo, familygram level books have for too long dominated the genre.
Sasgen's primary character is Hunter, a young, qui… more »
06/27/08
07:38:42 pm by halibut, Categories: Books, Submarine History, SS , Tags: books, halibut ssn 587, the submarine, thomas parrish The Submarine, A History by Thomas Parrish, should have been subtitled "A Biography". Parrish submerges the submarine's history in a colorful novel narrative that propels the reader through a book displacing 550 pages.
Who would have imagined an Amer… more »
10/28/07
01:54:26 am by halibut, Categories: American Submarines, Missions, Books, This Day In History, Deep Submergence Vehicles, Russian Submarines , Tags: all hands down, books, compass island, edward offley, glomar explorer, halibut, jerome preisler, k-129, kenneth sewell, project jennifer, pueblo, scorpion, scorpion down, seawolf, ssn 575, ssn 587, ssn 589, submarines On this day, October 28, 1968, the USNS Mizar (T-AGOR-11) towed her magnetometer and cameras over a sunken wreckage two miles below. Two days later the United States Navy declared to the world that the sunken USS Scorpion (SSN 589) had been located.
A… more »
09/11/06
Silent Steel re-examines John Craven's (author of The Silent War) "torpedo theory" explanation for the Scorpion's (SSN 589) demise. Johnson concludes that Craven's "torpedo theory" is not supported by the evidence or most experts that have examined that… more »
Body of Secrets includes several well written and information packed pages on how the Halibut tapped the Russian undersea communications cable in the Sea of Okhotsk, circa 1973 on.
Initially, Halibut's divers placed "inductive taps" on the cable and t… more »
Roger Dunham's Spy Sub is the first trade book on the Halibut SSN 587. It was censored by the government and refers to the pictured Halibut as the "Viperfish".
During Roger's period the "Viperfish" was engaged in the frantic and frenetic effort to ob… more »
The Silent War was written by the Navy's chief scientist responsible for over seeing the Halibut. However, the book is far from a contiguous and comprehensive history of the Halibut that one might expect from the "scientist" responsible for the Halibut.… more »
Blind Man's Bluff is currently the broadest account of the Halibut's various operations, activities and men. It has been widely read by many Halibut sailors and the general public. When a former Halibut sailor recommends a book about the Halibut, it will… more »
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