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Commands Submarine Development Group One.
Submarine Fleet Pacific
(SubPac)
Rear Adm. Austin B. Scott, Jr.—
Commander Submarine Fleet Pacific (ComSubPac).
U.S. Pacific Fleet
(PacFlt)
Adm. James A. Lyons, Jr.—
Commander in Chief U.S. Pacific Fleet(CinCPacFlt).
Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA)
Lt. Gen. Eugene Tighe—Commander DIA.
DIA Alfa Specialist Team
Gilbert Edwards—DIA Soviet submarine reactor specialist.
Kendrick Long—DIA Soviet submarine hull specialist.
Matthias Hart—DIA Soviet sonar specialist.
Sergyi Andreev—Soviet defector; saturation diver; on loan from NSA to DIA.
Wyatt Cook—Senior DIA Alfa specialist—In charge of DIA team.
DIA Security Team
Arturo Rodriguez (Arty)—Special Agent.
Darrell Capland (Cappy)—Special Supervisory Agent.
Jennifer Coolerage—Special Agent.
USS Los Angeles
Cmdr. Archibald Desmond—Commanding Officer.
Lt. Cmdr. Lew Brockhurst—Executive Officer.
Kodiak, Alaska
Master Pilot Sven Jakobsen—Woman’s Bay channel pilot.
Master Mariner Jack Petrikoff— Skipper of the Kodiak fishing boat St. Kate.
Katherine Perry (Kate)—Widow of Coast Guard Lt. j.g. Josh Perry killed in rescue of Petrikoff (Mac’s new love).
Mascot
Borysko—(Ukrainian name means fighter/warrior) the 30-foot-long, 12,000-pound Orca that saved Ski from a Polar Bear.
Incidental Characters
Aleksandr Alexeyev—captured Soviet Spetsnaz diver.
Boris Kuznetsov—captured Soviet Spetsnaz diver.
Jeremy Foggybottom—Soviet agent.
John Peel—Wreck diver at St. Paul Island.
Marchand Baptiste—Wreck diver at St. Paul Island.
Ships and Submarines
Admiral Isachenkov—A Project 1134A Soviet Berkut A-class Large Antisubmarine Cruiser.
Carp—Advanced Soviet Sierra-III class nuclear fast-attack submarine.
Lyre—A Project-705 Lira advanced Soviet Alfa class nuclear fast-attack submarine.
Shchuka—Advanced Soviet Victor-III class nuclear fast-attack submarine.
St. Kate—Jack Petrikoff’s fishing vessel named after Kate Perry.
Unknown—Advanced Soviet Victor-III class nuclear fast-attack submarine.
USS Drum (SSN 677)—A Sturgeon class nuclear fast-attack submarine.
USS San Francisco (SSN 711)—A Los Angeles class nuclear fast-attack submarine.
USS Swordfish (SSN 579)—A Skate class nuclear fast-attack submarine.
USS Teuthis (SSNR-2)—A specially modified nuclear submarine outfitted for special operations.
Vega—A project B-419 Soviet fishing trawler outfitted as a spy ship.
Volgograd—Advanced Soviet Victor-III class nuclear fast-attack submarine.
Zadornyy (959)—A Project 1135 Soviet Burevestnik-class Frigate.
Teuthis Watch Sections
Section One—0600 to 1200
Deck—Lt. Cmdr. J.R. McDowell (Mac)
JOOD— Lt. j.g. Seth Beaumont
Dive—Chief Torpedoman Jasper Cedrik (Tubes)
COW—Senior Chief Engineman Sam Dokey
Nav—Senior Chief Quartermaster Alastair Forbes (Al)
Fairwater/Helm—Seaman Joe Spanker (Spanky)
Stern/Lookout—Seaman Fred Jackson (Jack)
Stern/Lookout—Seaman Fritz Abele
Sonar—Chief Sonar Tech Royal Bennett (King)
EOW—Lt. j.g. Zeb Trainer
Section Two—1200 to 1800
Deck—Lt. Waverly Denver (Weaps)
JOOD—Assigned as needed
Dive—Chief Ocean Tech Bart Davidson
COW—Senior Chief Firecontrol Tech Ogden Winder (Oggy)
Nav—Quartermaster 1st Class Gary Fonzarelli (Fonzie)
Fairwater/Helm—Seaman Jake Boller
Stern/Lookout—Seaman Jeremiah Walker (Jerry)
Stern/Lookout—Seaman Greg Patterson
Sonar—Sonar Tech 1st Class Jim Orange
EOW—Chief Warrant Officer Bert Cobb
Section Three—1800-2400
Deck—Lt. Cmdr. Barry Jacobs (Nav)
JOOD— Assigned as needed
Dive—Chief Ocean Tech Francis Oberst
COW—Chief Electrician William Panner (Pots)
Nav—Quartermaster 2nd Class Ben Gross
Fairwater/Helm—Seaman Todd Bennett
Stern/Lookout—Seaman Steve Decker
Stern/Lookout—Seaman Billy-Bob Yokum
Sonar—Sonar Tech 2nd Class Benny Simms
EOW— Lt. Cmdr. Doug Watson (Eng)
Section Four—2400-0600
Deck—Lt. Cmdr. Franklin James
JOOD— Assigned as needed
Dive—Chief Electronics Tech Rusty Jackson
COW—Senior Chief Radioman Garth Walkman (Sparks)
Nav—Quartermaster 2nd Class Jubal Henshaw (Juby)
Fairwater/Helm –Seaman Josh Raker
Stern/Lookout—Seaman Julius Hoppenstein (Hoppy)
Stern/Lookout—Seaman Randolph Zimmerman (Zimm)
Sonar—Sonar Tech 2nd Class Don Forge
EOW—Lt. Morgan Atley
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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, collected together in The Daedalus Files, 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 her two cats.
Glossary For Operation Arctic Sting
1MC—Ship’s announcing system.
Akkord—The general control console on the Soviet Alfa submarine.
Alfa—The radiation monitoring console on the Soviet Alfa submarine.
Alfa Submarine—A Soviet nuclear submarine (Project-705 Lira) with the NATO reporting name Alfa class. It was the fastest military submarine ever built. The Alfa had a unique design with a titanium hull and a small but powerful lead-bismuth cooled fast reactor. This reduced the overall weight and size of the submarine and allowed for very high speeds; however, the reactor had a short lifetime and had to be kept warm when it was not being used. The Alfa was very automated and carried about 25 crew members, unlike other fast-attacks with crews of about 100. It had an escape pod in the sail that could hold 35 people.
APS—Underwater fully automatic Assault Weapon. Fires 26 darts in full automatic—lethal range forty feet. Magazine holds 26 darts. Was made in the Soviet Union for use underwater by Soviet frogmen as an underwater firearm. It was developed in the late 1960s and accepted for use in 1975. Under water, ordinary-shaped bullets are inaccurate and very short-range.
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 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 slightly larger than 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.
Bergie—A large chunk of sea ice that projects both above and below the water’s surface.
Boat—Slang term for submarine. Officially. All modern nuclear subs are called ships, but in practice, most submariners call them boats.
Boksit—The course control system console on the Soviet Alfa submarine.
Bollard—A short, thick post on a pier or wharf, to which a ship’s line may be secured.
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.
Brash—Small, floating fragments of sea or river ice typically near the ice edge in the ocean and in narrow straits with high tidal currents.
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.
Butter bar—Military slang for the insignia of an Ensign or Second Lieutenant because the golden bar looks like butter. Also used as slang to refer to those officers. They’re affectionately called “butter bars,” both because their rank insignia looks like one, and because they have about the same value as a stick of butter.
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.
CDMA—Code division multiple access. (See Secure underwater telephone.)
Chief-of-the-Boat—COB; the senior enlisted man on a submarine who serves as advisor to the commanding officer and executive officer. When a new enlisted sailor joins a boat’s crew, the COB is usually one of the first people the new sailor will meet.
Chief-of-the-Watch—COW; 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.
CINCLANTFLT—Commander-in-Chief, Naval Fleet Atlantic; the commander of all naval forces in the Atlantic.
CINCPACFLT—Commander-in-Chief, Naval Fleet Pacific; the commander of all naval forces in the Pacific.
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. 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.
COB—see Chief-of-the-Boat.
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.
COW—see Chief-of-the-Watch.
Crazy Ivan—A baffle-clearing maneuver practiced by Soviet submarines.
CRC—Cable Reel Compartment.
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.
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.
Dev Group—SubDevGruOne.
DIA—Defense Intelligence Agency.
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 Petty Officer controlling the submarine depth. Works directly under the OOD. The COW works directly for the Diving Officer.
