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SRATTLF. i/b — The commander i
of the nuclear submarine Sea
Dra .on, back from a historic Polar
rendezvous, predicted Tuesday that
submarines of the future will
cruise at depths of thousands of
feet.
Cmdr. Charles Sumrnitt of Nash
ville. Ft n;i., in a news conference
a* tine U.S. Naval Supply Depot
here, added that he believes special
types of subs will be able to hug
the ocean bottom.
The Sea Dragon and her 90
man crew were welcomed by a
crowd of about 300 including Sum
mitt's attractive brunette wife.
Ruth. Tiie submarine will remain
here for a week.
Also on hand was Mrs. Celesta
Skoog of Seattle, wife of Cmdr.
Joseph Skoog, commanding officer
of the Skate, the nuclear sub with
which the Sea Dragon rendez
voused under the Polar ice.
The Sea Dragon and Skate en
gaged in mock warfare under the
Polar ice before making their
rendezvous and surfacin' at the
North Pole Aug. 2. The feat was
announced by President Kennedy
at a news conference Aug. 22.
Sumrnitt told reporters:
“We feel we could operate in
that ocean as well as any other
ocean as far as combatting subs.”
After predicting that submarines
would operate at thousands of feet
depths, Sumrnitt was asked if
they would be able to hug the
bottom of the ocean.
"Well, it's a mighty deep ocean,
but in some subs of special kinds
I would think this would be true.”
He said U.S. Navy submarines
now can operate at depths ' i more
than 400 feet, but the exact depth
is classii ied.
Aske ’ about possible future
Polar exercises, he said, he was
sure some were being planned but
he didn't know the details.
“For a meaningful exercise,
probably three or four subs would
give us the best information,” he
added. He said one of these would
presumably be a target submarine. J
At one point in the trip to the
Pole. Sumrnitt said, the sub was
20 feet off the .ocean bottom and
licit 1 20 feet between it and the ice
overhead. He estimated the ice was
70 feet thick. This was in the
Chuk.A i Sea off Alaska.
In New London, Conn., the Skate
returned triumphantly from her
third Polar trip with a report that
runs under the Polar ice pack can
now be considered routine.
Tlie Arctic, said Cmdr. Skoog,
"is part of the natural habitat of
American nuclear submarines and
we will continued to regard it that
way
The skippers opinion was uacK
ed up by one of the civilian sci
entists who made the cruise.
Dr. Waldo Lyon, head of the
Arctic and Submarine Resources
Division of the U.S. Naval Elec
tronics Laboratory in San Diego,
said this was the first cruise on
which the Navy men ran the show
while the civilians merely looked
on.
“Once we started under the ice,”
he said, “the ship was completely
fleet operational. We don't need
the civilian types on board any
more.”
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