CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE
USS Halibut – Submerged, West of Kamchatka
Storms in the Sea of Okhotsk are never your average normal storms. Up here they start at ohmygosh and end up off the normal storm rating scale. The one above us as we crawled toward our destination was over the halfway mark toward off-the-scale. I came on watch to a gently rocking sub, just enough to make it pleasant – except for one thing. We were at 350 feet. For surface action to move us around at this depth would take monster waves. As I arrived at the Control Station, I glanced up at the surface wave monitor. Thirty-five to forty foot waves running in our direction.
Let me put this into perspective. If you were on the typical ocean-going yacht – forty-five to fifty feet long, and if you were sideways to these monsters, t
