Track of USS Teuthis & Lyre from Pt. Barrow to Amundsen Gulf
Track of & from Pt. Barrow to Amundsen GulfCHAPTER TEN
CHAPTER TENCHAPTER TENBeaufort Sea
Beaufort SeaTHE LYRE—BEAUFORT SEA
THE LYRE—BEAUFORT SEALYREI was reasonably confident that Frisco and Swordfish were tracking Teuthis and Lyre. I was also confident that they knew our ultimate destination and probable track. With the aid of the first transponder, they would keep the two Soviet subs off our tails until we lost them in the sweeping canyons that formed the drop from the Alaskan continental shelf into the Arctic Basin.
Frisco SwordfishTeuthisLyreAhead of us lay forty-eight nautical miles of water that started out fairly shallow for most of my watch and then got increasingly deeper. As soon as we left the hole, I changed t
