Unknown Waters: A First-Hand Account of the Historic Under-Ice Survey of the Siberian Continental Shelf by USS Queenfish (SSN-651) by Alfred Scott McLaren, William R. Anderson (Foreword by)

List of Illustrations     ix
Foreword   Captain William R. Anderson     xiii
Preface     xvii
Acknowledgments     xxi
Man Overboard!     1
Becoming a Submarine Officer     5
The Advent of the True Arctic Submarine     12
Construction and Commissioning of USS Queenfish (SSN-651)     22
The First Arctic Test of Queenfish: The Davis Strait Marginal Sea-Ice Operation     32
Prospective Commanding Officer Training for Submarine Command     37
Taking Command of Queenfish     45
Mission Underway: En Route to the Arctic at Last     48
A Brief on the Arctic Ocean and Siberian Continental Shelf     60
Through the Bering Strait and into the Chukchi Sea     68
First Surfacings in the Arctic Ocean: En Route to the Geographic North Pole     88
Exploring the Nansen Cordillera for Volcanic Activity     113
The Northeast Passage and the Development of the Northern Sea Route     117
To Severnaya Zemlya and the Beginning of the Shelf Survey     123
The East Coast of Severnaya Zemlya and the Vilkitsky Strait     132
Alteration of the Survey Plan in the Shallow Laptev Sea     145
Northward around the New Siberian Islands     157
The Even Shallower East Siberian Sea     170
Return to Survey the Northwestern Chukchi Sea     181
Nome and the Long Journey Home     191
Epilogue     198
Appendix     205
Notes     209
Glossary     221
Bibliography     229
Index     233