The Listed Coordinate is Spurious
It may take you to Crews, but you really need the REFERENCE POINT shown below
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Submarine USS Nautilus SSN-571
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The USS Nautilus is a the world's first Nuclear powered Submarine. The Nautilus's specs are:
Length: 319 feet
Beam: 27 feet
Draft: 22 feet
Crew: 13 Officers 94 Men
Displacement: Surface - 3,500 tons / Submerged - 4,090 tons
Max Speed: Surface - 20kts design, 17kts practical / Submerged - 25kts (reported - apparently at over 17 knots on the surface the sub begins diving on its own due to the hull's design)
Range: Limited to oxygen supply - estimated to be several months
Fuel Capacity: Reactor capacity unknown, but absence of fuel tanks allows for more room than in diesel subs
Diving Depth: 700' + (reported - all depth gauges are covered over)
Armament: Twenty-four 21" torpedoes in 6 tubes. No one knows if she ever carried the 'Silver Bullet' in the top tube.
Power Plant: One pressurized water nuclear reactor producing 15,000 shaft hp to steam turbines driving twin screws
Launch Date: January 21, 1954 at the Electric Boat Shipyard in Groton, Connecticut
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Operation Sunshine
Under strict security Nautilus departed from Seattle on 9 June, 1958 to attempt the crossing of the geographic North Pole. Under the command of Commander William R Anderson she approached the polar ice pack from the Bearing Sea and attempted to make her way through the Chukchi Sea. At this time of year deep sea ice and shallow water forced her to turn back and put into Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. In July, Nautilus returned, and this time was able to pass through the Chukchi Sea and the Barrow Sea Valley. On 3 August, 1958, she reached 90 degrees north and the commander announced: 'For the World, Our country and the Navy...the North Pole'. and broadcast the message Nautilus 90 North. After 96 hours under the polar ice, Nautilus surfaced in the Greenland Sea on the 5 August, 1958.
With the introduction of nuclear power submarines suddenly had the ability to stay submerged for months at a time. It allowed their development into mobile launch platforms for nuclear armed ballistic missiles. Submarines were now able to hide in the oceans carrying their potent cargo while being practically invulnerable to being traced and destroyed. Nautilus was the first of her kind, and had changed the face of warfare forever. The Cold War would last 30 years.
It is appropriate here (as an FYI) to also mention USS Seawolf SSN575. Her reactor was stripped on 18 April 1959. The Navy disposed of the radioactive S2G plant by sealing it in a 30 foot high stainless steel containment vessel, towing it out to sea on a barge, and then sinking the barge at a point about 120 miles due east of Maryland in 9,100 feet of water. Twenty-one years later, the Navy was unable to relocate the container, but said that the radioactive materials inside 'should decay before the containment vessel deteriorated' (Good luck).
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N38' 11.028 W085' 38.130
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With Heart And Hand
The listed coordinates will take you to 'Fuzzy', whose contributions helped make all of that possible. He was aware of the nuclear future he would help to shape and wasn't happy with the ensuing tensions.
To determine the final location and log this cache, please complete the following:
(Dive depth + Length of boat) - (Surface speed + Submerged speed) = ABC
(Year of Death -Year of Birth) + (# Men - # Officers in crew) = DEF
You are seeking a micro lab tube, lo on the post.
It can be found here:
North 38' 10.ABC
West 85' 38.DEF
Checksum of A....F = 32
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