Arctic Gold

Authors: Stephen Coonts

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“24’ N, 179a! 45’ E2135 hours, GMT12POLYNYA,CAPTAIN! THE EXEC called out. Thin ice!I see it, Grenville said, face pressed against the starboard- side periscope. Sonar! What have you got on the roof?Control, Sonar, a voice came back over the intercom speaker. The roof appears flat, Captain. No ridge echoes or keels for at least one hundred yards. Signal Sierra One is remaining steady, bearing one- six- niner, range approximately two hundred yards.Dean stood next to the periscope well, watching th...e TV monitors high up on the port side of the control room, aft of the side- by- side helm and planesman stations forward. A camera mounted on the scope was revealing what the captain was seeing through the eyepiece of the Mk. 18 scope, which was now angled so that it was looking straight up, toward the underside of the roof, the layer of ice now twenty yards above them. Details were indistinct, but there was definitely a hazy glow of light up theresunlight, meaning that the ice over this particular patch of ocean was quite thin.There were two periscopes, mounted next to each other, port and starboard.MoreLess Read More Read Less