Ho crap -I did not know about this.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Richard_B.Russell(SSN-687)
Now I would kind of like it if you did "go on." I like the way you write…
I get the sense yours has a pretty good view.
You may not have reached your intended target here, but you put some spring in my step. Thanks. I'm going to go see what I can find out about decommissioned submarines dodging the torch at Bremerton.
o7
What I thought could be relevant search terms returns a bunch of crap about the Glomar Explorer salvage attempt on the Russian sub. The Glomar Explorer annoys me because in 1972 the C_A used the Weekly Reader public school program to turn 9 year old me into an expert on the sea mining of "manganese nodules" so I could go home and BS my parents about the ship's purpose.
Still digging …location. Puget Sound.
>explained.html
"And all of a sudden it all makes sense. And it is a good example of confusing perspective and how the human eye/brain can jump to the wrong conclusions.
This was not a missile launch far to the north over Whidbey Island. "
Yup.