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Electronics Technician 1st Class Parker Flanger—Mystic technician
Soviet Alfa Submarine
Unknown Soviet Officer—Commanding Officer
Soviet Submarine Carp
Leonid Volkov—Captured diver
Kodiak, Alaska
Master Pilot Sven Jakobsen—Woman’s Bay channel pilot
Master Mariner Jack Petrikoff—Kodiak fishing boat skipper
Katherine Perry (Kate)—Widow of CG Lt.j.g. Josh Perry killed in rescue of Petrikoff
Teuthis Watch Sections
Section One—0600 to 1200
Deck—Lt. Cmdr. J.R. McDowell (Mac)
JOOD—Lt.j.g. Zeb Trainer
Dive—Chief Jasper Cedrik (Tubes)
COW—Senior Chief Sam Dokey
Nav—Senior Chief Alastair Forbes (Al)
Fairwater/Helm—Seaman Joe Spanker (Spanky)
Stern/Lookout—Seaman Fred Jackson (Jack)
Stern/Lookout—Seaman Fritz Abele
Sonar—Chief Royal Bennett (King)
Section Two—1200 to 1800
Deck—Chief Warrant Officer Bert Cobb
JOOD—Lt.j.g. Seth Beaumont
Dive—Chief Ocean Tech Bart Davidson
COW—Senior Chief Ogden Winder (Oggy)
Nav—Petty Officer 1st Class Gary Fonzarelli (Fonzie)
Fairwater/Helm—Seaman Jake Boller
Stern/Lookout—Seaman Jeremiah Walker (Jerry)
Stern/Lookout—Seaman Greg Patterson
Sonar—Petty Officer 1st Class Jim Orange
Section Three—1800-2400
Deck—Lt. Cmdr. Barry Jacobs (Nav)
JOOD—Lt. Waverly Denver (Weps)
Dive—Chief Ocean Tech Francis Oberst
COW—Chief William Panner (Pots)
Nav—Petty Officer 2nd Class Ben Gross
Fairwater/Helm—Seaman Todd Bennett
Stern/Lookout—Seaman Steve Decker
Stern/Lookout—Seaman Billy-Bob Yokum
Sonar—Petty Officer 2nd Class Benny Simms
Section Four—2400-0600
Deck—Lt. Cmdr. Doug Watson (Eng)
JOOD—Lt. Cmdr. Franklin James
Dive—Chief Rusty Jackson
COW—Senior Chief Garth Walkman (Sparks)
Nav—Petty Officer 2nd Class Jubal Henshaw (Juby)
Fairwater/Helm –Seaman Josh Raker
Stern/Lookout—Seaman Julius Hoppenstein (Hoppy)
Stern/Lookout—Seaman Randolph Zimmerman (Zimm)
Sonar—Petty Officer 2nd Class Don Forge
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The Chicken Little Agenda—Debunking “Experts’” Lies
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Daedalus
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Daedalus—Squad
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Operation Ivy Bells
Operation Ice Breaker
Operation Arctic Sting (scheduled for release 2021)
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Slingshot
The Starchild Compact
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Icicle—A Tensor Matrix
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Dr. Robert G. Williscroft served twenty-three years in the U.S. Navy and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). He commenced his service as an enlisted nuclear Submarine Sonar Technician in 1961, was selected for the Navy Enlisted Scientific Education Program in 1966, and graduated from University of Washington in Marine Physics and Meteorology in 1969. He returned to nuclear submarines as the Navy’s first Poseidon Weapons Officer. Subsequently, he served as Navigator and Diving Officer on both catamaran mother vessels for the Deep Submergence Rescue Vehicle. Then he joined the Submarine Development Group One out of San Diego as the Officer-in-Charge of the Test Operations Group, conducting “deep-ocean surveillance and data acquisition”—which forms the basis for his Cold War novel Operation Ivy Bells.
In NOAA, Dr. Williscroft directed diving operations throughout the Pacific and Atlantic. As a certified diving instructor for both the National Association of Underwater Instructors (NAUI) and the Multinational Diving Educators Association (MDEA), he taught over 3,000 individuals both basic and advanced SCUBA diving. He authored four diving books, developed the first NAUI drysuit course, developed advanced curricula for mixed gas and other specialized diving modes, and developed and taught a NAUI course on the Math and Physics of Advanced Diving. His doctoral dissertation for California Coast University, A System for Protecting SCUBA Divers from the Hazards of Contaminated Water, was published by the U.S. Department of Commerce and distributed to Port Captains worldwide. He also served three shipboard years in the high Arctic conducting scientific baseline studies, and thirteen months at the geographic South Pole in charge of National Science Foundation atmospheric projects.
Dr. Williscroft has written extensively on terrorism and related subjects. He is the author of a popular book on current events published by Pelican Publishing: The Chicken Little Agenda—Debunking Experts’ Lies, now in its second edition as an eBook, and a new children’s book series, Starman Jones, in collaboration with Dr. Frank Drake, world-famous director of the Carl Sagan Center for the Study of Life in the Universe and the SETI Institute.
Dr. Williscroft’s 1st novel in The Starchild Trilogy, Slingshot, tells the story of the construction of the world’s first Space Launch Loop. Slingshot was launched at the Seattle International Space Elevator Conference in August 2015. His 2nd novel in The Starchild Trilogy, The Starchild Compact, is based on the discovery that Saturn’s moon Iapetus is actually a derelict starship, and how Earth explorers eventually meet with the “Founders,” who originally arrived on the starship and populated the Earth long ago. In the 3rd book in The Starchild Trilogy, The Iapetus Federation, the Federation expands Solar Systemwide, while a new Caliphate sweeps Earth. The Starchild Institute creates wormhole portals to enable the Exodus. Earth becomes medieval, while human focus shifts to the Iapetus Federation. Humans settle every potentially habitable spot in the Solar System and begin expanding into the rest of the Galaxy.
The Daedalus Files takes place in the world of Slingshot. In four short stories, Daedalus, Daedalus LEO, Daedalus Squad, and Daedalus Combat, Dr. Williscroft follows the U.S. Navy SEALS Winged Insertion Command (SWIC) and its development of the Gryphon hard wingsuit for combat drops from Low Earth Orbit.
Dr. Williscroft’s most recent novel, Icicle—A Tensor Matrix, is a hard science fiction story about a wealthy engineer in today’s world who has terminal cancer and arranges for his head to be cryonically preserved. He wakes up about a century later inside an electronic matrix. He becomes the spearhead of humanity’s defensive effort against an invading space fleet operating under the Dark Forest Theory (Like hunters in a “dark forest,” a civilization can never be certain of an alien civilization’s true intentions. The extreme distances between stars creates an insurmountable “chain of suspicion,” where any two civilizations cannot communicate well enough to dissipate mistrust, making conflict inevitable.) This is the first of three books in The Oort Chronicles.
Dr. Williscroft is an active member of the Colorado Author’s League, Science Fiction Writers of America, Libertarian Futurist Society, Los Angeles Adventurers’ Club, Mensa, Military Officer’s Association, American Legion, and NRA. He lives in Centennial, Colorado, with his wife, Jill, and their twin college boys (when they are home from school).
Glossary For
Operation Ice Breaker
1MC—Ship’s announcing system.
ASR—Submarine Rescue Ship (Auxiliary Submarine Rescue)—Ships specially designed to rescue crews from downed submarines. They originally carried McCann Rescue Bells. Later, two catamaran ASRs (the USS Ortolan and USS Pigeon) carried the DSRVs.
ASW—Anti-submarine Warfare
Baffles—The baffles is the area in the water directly behind a submarine or ship through which a hull-mounted sonar cannot hear. This blind spot is caused by the noise of the vessel’s machinery, propulsion system, and propellers.
Basketball—A basketball-size, camera-carrying remotely operated vehicle (ROV) on a tether.
BCP—Ballast Control Panel; the console from which water is pumped into and out of a sub, and distributed fore and aft in the sub. The Chief-of-the-Watch occupies this position, under the control of the Diving Officer or the OOD.
Björling and Kallstenius expedition—In 1892, 21-year-old Alfred Björling organized an expedition to be the first to reach the North Pole. Björling convinced fellow countryman and zoologist Evald Kallstenius to join him on what was described as a “botanizing expedition to northern Greenland.” The expedition was mounted on a very low budget. In May 1892, the expedition left Stockholm with a course toward Liverpool and on to St. John’s, Newfoundland. The explorers purchased the small schooner Ripple in St. John’s for $665, recruited a 21-year-old Dane as captain and two locally hired men as crew. In June, the expedition left St. John’s and took this tiny vessel through treacherous ice, and in less than a month, on July 28, reached Godhavn in Greenland. The exact history of the expedition is not well known. It appears, however, that their plan was to sail to Etah and hire local Inuit to help them reach the Pole. Back in 1875, British explorer George Nares had left a cache of on the southeasternmost Carey island. While stopping at that island to pick up those supplies, the Ripple was driven onshore and wrecked, perhaps under the pressure of drift ice. The men attempted to sail a small sloop (also purchased in Newfoundland) back to Etah but were forced to return to the Carey Islands. According to letters left in a cairn on the island, the four men attempted to sail their open boat 80 miles to Ellesmere Island:
Forced by bad weather to linger on this island for a long time, I now set out on the tour to the Eskimos... on Ellesmere Island. As I hope that a whaler will visit Carey Island next summer to rescue me and my companions, I will try to reach this island again before July 1. We are now five men, of which one is dying.
In June 1893, the crew of the Scottish whaler Aurora spotted a wreck on the southeasternmost Carey island. They found the Ripple and a man’s body buried under a pile of stones. They found as well Björling’s letters. In July 1894, a Swedish search expedition led by explorer Axel Ohlin went to the area and located the wreck and related tracks on the southeasternmost Carey island. No trace of the other four men or the sloop was ever found. That island was named Björling Øer in honor of the young explorer.
Boomer—Ballistic Missile Submarine.
Bottom—Bottom of the ocean, the seafloor. As a verb as in “to bottom,” putting the submarine on the seafloor.
Bow—Front of a ship or sub
Bridge—The place on a ship from which it is driven. On a sub, it is the conning station at the top of the sail, (See Conn.)
Brow—Gangway onto a vessel from the pier or another vessel.
Capstan—A revolving cylinder with a vertical axis used for hauling in a rope or cable.
Captain—The officer in command of the ship or sub. He is an absolute dictator, subject only to the Uniform Code of Military Justice, and the orders of his superiors in the chain-of-command.
Chief-of-the-Watch (COW)—Chief-of-the-Watch; the enlisted watchstander (usually a chief petty officer) who sits at the BCP and controls the ship’s load of ballast water and its distribution throughout the submarine. The COW is also the senior watchstander for all the non-engineering spaces.
CINPACFLT—Commander-In-Chief, Pacific Fleet
Clear the baffles—A submarine tracking another submarine can take advantage of its quarry’s baffles to follow at a close distance without being detected. Periodically, a submarine will perform a maneuver called clearing the baffles, in which the boat will turn left or right far enough to listen with the sonar for a few minutes in the area that was previously blocked by the baffles.
Cleat—A T-shaped piece of metal or wood, esp. on a boat or ship, to which ropes are attached.
Clove hitch—A type of knot used to bend a smaller line around a larger one or around a pipe.
COB—Chief-of-the-Boat; the senior enlisted man on a submarine.
Column—(water column) All the water above and below.
Come-home bottle—A small gas bottle that gets a diver back to the PTC/DDC in an emergency.
COMSUBLANT— Commander, Submarine Force Atlantic; the commander of all submarine forces in the Atlantic.
COMSUBPAC—Commander, Submarine Force Pacific; the commander of all submarine forces in the Pacific.
Conn—(1) The location from which the sub is controlled by the OOD (Officer-of-the-Deck)—also called Control. (2) The Conning Officer (Conn), the watch position for the person who controls the sub’s direction, speed, and depth. The OOD usually has both the Deck and Conn, but can pass off the Conn to another qualified officer. Sometimes the captain will assume the Deck, leaving the Conn with the officer watchstander.
Control—Another name for the Conn
COW—see Chief-of-the-Watch.
Crazy Ivan—A baffle-clearing maneuver practiced by Soviet submarines
CRC—Cable Reel Compartment
Dev Group—SubDevGruOne
DDC—Deck Decompression Chamber; a pressure chamber on a ship’s deck or just below the deck that contains a side lock for entrance and egress, a top lock to mate with the PTC, a small lock for passing in food or medical supplies, emergency equipment, and depending on how it is being used, bunks, lavatory facilities, etc. On the Teuthis, it is the saturation diving chamber complex on the bottom level of the DOC.
Deck—The watch position of OOD (Officer-of-the-Deck); the person in-charge of the sub when the captain is not in the Control Room or has not assumed the Deck while in the Control Room.
Dive Control—The location of the Dive Control Console in the Ops Compartment beneath the Nav Center. Saturation dives are controlled from here.
Dive Control Console—A console with gauges, valves, and indicators from where a saturation dive is controlled.
Diving Officer—The officer or specially qualified Chief controlling the submarine depth. Works directly under the OOD. The COW works directly for the Diving Officer.
DIW—Dead in the water; a ship that is not moving through the water.
DOC—Diving Operations Compartment
Dolphins—The insignia worn by qualified submariners, silver for enlisted, and gold for officers. It represents about a year of hard study to gain complete, detailed knowledge of the submarine.
DRT—Dead Reckoning Trace. A mechanically generated ship’s track based on input from the SINS.
EB—Electric Boat, short for General Dynamics Electric Boat
Emergency surface—Dumping high pressure into the main ballast tanks at a high rate, causing the submarine to surface very quickly.
Executive Officer (XO)—Second in command of a ship or sub. Responsible for ship’s administration and personnel.
Fast-attack—See “Nuke fast-attack.”
Fast cruise—A one-to-two-day period alongside the pier where all sub’s systems are checked out just prior to deployment.
Fish—An ROV with high-resolution, sidescan sonar that produces detailed images of the seafloor.
Fish—A torpedo.
General Dynamics Electric Boat—A General Dynamics company that has designed, built, and maintained submarines for the U.S. Navy since 1899.
Hawser—Heavy line used to moor subs and other vessels.
Heaving line—Also “messenger line.” A light line, often with a monkey fist at one end, used to haul or support a larger cable.
Helm—Ship’s wheel and steering mechanisms. The person manning the helm.
Humboldt Squid—A large (5ft to 20+ft) squid found in the central pacific and along the Southwest coast of North America.
Ivan—Nickname for Russian
JOOD—Junior Officer-of-the-Deck; the individual (usually an OOD in training) who works directly for the OOD. The JOOD is responsible only to the OOD.
Keepers—One-piece rubber straps that wrap around the ankle and under the arch. Keep the feet of a Unisuit from filling with air and blowing off a diver’s feet when he is inverted.
Kirby-Morgan helmet—A hard helmeted full facemask specifically designed to work with both umbilical and rebreather saturation diving systems from the 1970s and 1980s.
Loran-C—A radio-based navigation system that served the mid-latitudes.
M-80—A cherry-bomb-like small explosive charge.
Main ballast tanks—Saddle-shaped tanks that fit around a submarine’s hull near the bow and stern. They are open to the sea at the bottom and have large valves at the top. When the valves are opened, water quickly fills the ballast tanks causing the submarine to submerge. Air entering the tanks forces water out through the bottom openings, bringing the submarine to the surface. Dumping high pressure into the main ballast tanks at a high rate causes the submarine to emergency surface.
