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Thursday, November 14, 2013

Life aboard the Navy’s top secret Cold War submarine: The disassembled NR-1 vessel is brought back to life for exhibition on its dangerous missions

NR-1 nuclear research submarineThe remains of a top secret tiny submarine that could dive deeper than any other vessel and was used in the recovery of the doomed Challenger shuttle have been put on display.

The NR-1 sub performed Cold War operations so classified that its 10-man crews remain sworn to secrecy to this day.

It had a claw to pick objects off the sea bed - crucial in the days when Americans and Soviets were tapping underground cables - and even went in search of fragments from the Challenger space shuttle, which exploded during blast-off in 1986.

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