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2) White plague
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"In the remote, frozen waters of the Arctic Ocean, the high-powered and technically advanced submarine USS Montana is in peril. Adrift and in flames, the boat--and the entire crew--could be lost. The only team close enough to get to them in time is led by Marine doctor and bio-terror expert Joe Rush. With only thirty-six hours before the surviving crew perish, Joe and his team must race to rescue the Montana and ensure that the boat doesn't fall into...
3) The command
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[2019]
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Follow the final hours of an 'unsinkable' Russian nuclear submarine as it sinks to the bottom of the Barents Sea. Some of the crew survives the initial explosion, including officer Mikhail Kalekov, whose pregnant wife and child are waiting back home. Unfortunately, their rescue is complicated by bureaucracy between Russia, France, Norway, and Britain, with British navy chief David Russell attempting to convince Russian officials to accept foreign...
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[2002]
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Inspired by actual events. At the height of the 1960s Cold War, Russia launches its flagship nuclear submarine, the K-19. As the K-19 heads toward American waters, a shocking discovery is made: the vessel's nuclear reactor system is leaking, imperiling the men and the sub's missiles.
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Armed with stolen U. S. military technology, the Chinese are producing a frightening new breed of weaponry, led by the ICBM submarine Xia III--a vessel that just might be able to launch a nuclear warhead across the Pacific Ocean and take out an American West Coast city. National Security Adviser Admiral Arnold Morgan can't let that happen, and he dispatches the most stealthy hunter-killer submarine in the U. S. fleet, the 9, 000-ton ultrasecret Seawolf,...
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A true story of Cold War espionage and engineering reveals how the CIA and the U.S. Navy, using the involvement of Howard Hughes as a cover story, spent six years and nearly a billion dollars to steal a nuclear-armed Soviet submarine after it sank in the Pacific Ocean.
8) Tempest down
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An experimental U.S. Submarine, the Tempest D, with a propulsion system five-times-faster than traditional drives is to be tested in the remote South Polar waters. Chinese intelligence learns of the test and sends their own submarine to observe. When an underwater collision causes the submarines to become trapped under the Antarctic ice, they need each other to survive. Meanwhile, a U.S. military team codenamed L.A.S.E.R., Land Air Sea Emergency Rescue,...
9) Cold choices
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Jerry Mitchell novels volume 2
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"Former naval pilot and submarine captain Jerry Mitchell embarks on a reconnaissance mission deep in the Barents Sea and struggles to outmaneuver a surprise submarine attack that damages both vessels and strands them on the bottom of the ocean."--from NoveList.
10) The right thing
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When a U.S. nuclear submarine collided with a Japanese fishing vessel in the spring of 2001, the story made national headlines. Navy Commander Scott Waddle, former captain of the U.S.S. Greeneville, was at the center of the controversy. This is the first-hand, never-before-published account of that fatal moment and the heart-breaking avalanche of events that followed.
11) Black Sea affair
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It starts with a high-stakes theft: weapons grade plutonium is stolen from Russia. U.S. Intelligence discovers that the stolen shipment is actually on a rogue Russian freighter in the Black Sea.
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One of the great secrets of the Cold War, hidden for decades, is revealed at last. Early in 1968, a nuclear-armed Soviet submarine sank close to American shores. Compelling evidence strongly suggests that the sub, which we now know was a rogue, sank while attempting to fire a nuclear missile. The clandestine, half-billion-dollar U.S. project to recover the sub helped forge new relations with the Soviets—even as it revealed a treacherous plan that,...
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An undersea adventure narrated from the suffocating depths of the ocean floor—as time and oxygen are quickly running out—The Dive is the harrowing and heroic story of the rescue of submarine Pisces III.
They were out of their depth, out of breath and out of time. Two men, trapped in a crippled submarine.
Outside was pitch darkness and the icy chill of the ocean’s depths—and the crushing weight of 1,700 feet of water. On the surface a flotilla...
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"Author and naval historian Joseph A. Williams has delved into never-revealed archival sources to tell the compelling narrative of the S-4 disaster, the first attempt to rescue survivors stranded aboard a modern submarine. As navy deep sea divers struggled to save the imprisoned men, a winter storm raged at the surface, creating some of the worst diving conditions in American history. Circumstances were so terrible that one diver, Fred Michels, became...
19) The abyss
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When a nuclear submarine mysteriously sinks, the Navy commandeers the crew of a civilian deep sea oil rig to help in the rescue operation. This perilous mission becomes a wondrous odyssey into the unknown as forces from the ocean's deepest region begin to make contact with the divers.
20) Gray lady down
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2000.
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Charlton Heston stars as a hard-bitten captian making his last voyage in command of the U.S.S. Neptune, a nuclear submarine that is sunk in a collision with a Norwegian freighter. The only hope for the forth-one men trapped 1450 feet down is a pair of maverick inventors racing to clear the blocked escape hatch with an experimental submersible.
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