Table of Contents Dedication Disclaimer Acknowledgments Foreword USS Halibut Organizational Chart Cast of Characters Chapter One Humbold Squid At 1,000 feet depth off Point Loma Chapter Two The Personnel Transfer Capsule (PTC) Point Loma Submarine Base Elk River – Off Point Loma Chapter Three Submarine Development Group One insignia COMSUBDEVGRU-ONE, Point Loma Chapter Four USS Halibut (SSN 587) Mare Island Shipyard Chapter Five The Horse and Cow – aka Winnie & Moo Winnie & Moo – Vallejo, California Chapter Six Computer rendering of USS Scorpion debris field Mare Island USS Halibut – Mare Island Chapter Seven Gary E Flynn on the Halibut planes USS Halibut – Fast Cruise, Mare Island Chapter Eight Vallejo to the Golden Gate USS Halibut – Mare Island USS Halibut –San Francisco Bay USS Halibut – Golden Gate Chapter Nine USS Halibut submerged USS Halibut – North Pacific Chapter Ten Japanese Trawler towing a pelagic net USS Halibut – North Pacific Chapter Eleven Route from the N. Pacific into the Sea of Okhotsk, Shelikhov Gulf, south to Guam, back again, and finally south to Guam USS Halibut – Sea of Okhotsk Chapter Twelve Soviet Kashin Class Destroyer USS Halibut – Off the West Coast of Kamchatka Chapter Thirteen Cable running along the sea floor USS Halibut – Off the West Coast of Kamchatka Chapter Fourteen Doc entering the Can USS Halibut – At the Cable. USS Halibut – The Can Chapter Fifteen Fifty foot high Ocean Storm Wave USS Halibut – Periscope Depth USS Halibut – At 400 feet west of Kamchatka Chapter Sixteen Halibut anchored above the bottom near the cable USS Halibut – At the Cable Repeater Chapter Seventeen Bill grabbed by a large fish On the Sea Floor – At the Cable Repeater Chapter Eighteen A nest of large crabs on the sea floor On the Sea Floor – At the Cable Repeater Chapter Nineteen Halibut with forward anchor cable parted USS Halibut – Anchored Above the Bottom On the Sea Floor – At the Cable Repeater Chapter Twenty Soviet Kashin Class Destroyer USS Halibut – At the Cable Repeater USS Halibut – Shelikhov Gulf Chapter Twenty-one Soviet Whiskey Class Submarine USS Halibut – Shelikhov Gulf Chapter Tewnty-two Ski returning to Halibut from the Whiskey with cut umbilical USS Halibut – On the Sea Floor, Shelikhov Gulf Chapter Twenty-three The crippled Whiskey floundering on the surface USS Halibut – On the Sea Floor, Shelikhov Gulf USS Halibut – 200 ft heading South, Shelikhov Gulf Chapter Twenty-four Krusenstern Strait USS Halibut – Krusenstern Strait Chapter Twenty-five Sea of Okhotsk to Guam USS Halibut – Transit to Guam Chapter Twenty-six Apra Harbor – Guam Apra Harbor – Guam Guam – Talofofo Falls Chapter Twenty-seven The 12,000 pound Pod Floating Dry-dock – Apra Harbor Chapter Twenty-eight The long trek to and from Guam USS Halibut – Underway from Guam USS Halibut – Submerged Transit to Sea of Okhosk Chapter Twenty-nine Kuril Trench USS Halibut – Kuril Trench Chapter Thirty Ekarma Strait USS Halibut – Krusenstern Strait USS Halibut – Northbound, Sea of Okhotsk Chapter Thirty-one Pod with lift bags and weights being moved across bottom USS Halibut – Submerged, West of Kamchatka USS Halibut – On the Sea Floor at the Cable Repeater Chapter Thirty-two Bill trapped under the skid On the Sea Floor – At the Cable Repeater USS Halibut – Transit to Shelikhov Chapter Thirty-three Shelikhov Gulf – Missile splash zone USS Halibut – Shelikhov Gulf On the Sea Floor – Shelikhov Gulf Chapter Thirty-four Bill securing the Russian diver On the Sea Floor – Shelikhov Gulf Chapter Thirty-five Manipulating the Russian diving bell The Can – On the Sea Floor, Shelikhov Gulf On the Sea Floor – Shelikhov Gulf Chapter Thirty-six Bill and Sergyi playing chess in the Can USS Halibut – Underway, Shelikhov Gulf Chapter Thirty-seven Halibut hiding directly beneath an old trawler USS Halibut – Kuril Straits Chapter Thirty-eight Mac struggling with a Russian diver USS Halibut – Fourth Kuril Strait Chapter Thirty-nine Mac undergoing an emergency operation in the Can The Can – USS Halibut, North Pacific Epilog Navy Cross Medal Rodman Theatre – Mare Island Afterword Reykjavik, Iceland Post a Review Excerpt from The Starchild Compact Cassini II in the Asteroid Belt L-4 – MIRS Complex, Four Weeks Earlier L-4 – Ring Kiev Words of praise for The Starchild Compact Other Books by Robert Williscroft Connect with Robert Williscroft About the Author Glossary Dedication This book is dedicated to the heroic submariners and saturation divers who participated in Operation Ivy Bells in the Sea of Okhotsk and the Barents Sea from the late 1960s through the mid 1980s, men whose courageous actions materially enhanced America’s Cold War stance and significantly shortened the duration of the Cold War.

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