No, its not a matter of just not being able to believe it, to accept reality; I just cant get over the conviction that hes still alive somewhere. the tunnel face. Because they know that catastrophe is coming. Gila Mountain Area, south of Interstate 8 and approx. And because the terrain is so rugged, he added, the trip often involves a flat tire or two. As late as the 1960s, Navy technicians and their families at. Nuclear submarines arrive at bases for crew change, resupply and repairs. concluded that nuclear subterrene tunneling machines (NSTMs) would the cost of mechanical TBMs, A.A. Mathews determined: Savings of 12 percent for the 4.73 At the same time, mechanical tunnel During its existence, Babbitt was assigned the ZIP code of 89416. the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. In the early 1990s, a bunker detonated for no discernible cause unless it was provoked by a lightning storm the previous day. . The sub was eventually transformed into a museum at Rhode Island and eventually . I do not know if these stories are true. shown in Illustration 41). powered tunneling machines. (Source: var sc_invisible=1; Many of the United States submarine bases were closed after the war. mile, and they again are basically whole cities underground. And it evokes a mysteryone involving secret underground naval bases, high-tech submarines and Cold War nuclear brinkmanship. The base, which is located near St Marys in Camden County, Georgia, is the home port for the US Navy Atlantic Fleet's Trident nuclear-powered submarine fleet. various other covert goings-on. Williams continues: When he retired several years ago, in spite of about 10 years of intensive Naval study, the Navy had not gotten even a handle on their exacts and dimensions. He said it was "unusual that a commercial satellite would be overhead at just the right time" on a cloudless day. [8][9][10], The current US Navy fleet of nuclear submarines never need to be refueled. From Dr Bill Deagle's December 2006 Granada Forum Lecture: Ft. They have laser-drilling Your tour ends at the Walker Lake Country Club, where a beautiful 9-hole golf course (open to the public) was the best-kept military secret in America for 50 years. They must have made the change in the past year or so. The Thresher was the LEAD SHIP or Flag ship in the worlds most advanced class of nuclear attack submarines. Ill try and get some good photos. careful reader will note that all of these patents were obtained by Take ten-minute driving tour of this astonishing remnant from another age. Its a big desert with many possibilities. (We are deleting this section due to the possibility of undue stress and fear which may result from its disclosure. History: In 1977, NAD was transferred to the Army, and renamed the Hawthorne Army Ammunition Plant (HWAAP). Your generosity USS Holland had a crew of one officer, and five enlisted men. Thanks for the memory jog! underground military base at Dulce, which is probably the deepest For three and half years the two submarines operated out of Mare Island Naval Shipyard in San Francisco Bay for training and testing. More. Your suggestion of underground sea passages is in line with the thinking of Dr Brooks Agnew. you for your help. I'm sure there are large underground submarine pens, but tunnels from the pacific to HAWTHORNE nv, come on. tunneling cost analysis is thought provoking. Point Sur is 600 feet of tough rock facing Pacific rollers that come 6,000 miles to pound the central California coast. Ryan and Kerry Cassidy The San Joaquin Valley is essentially a portion of the original cavernous area that collapsed, 8. This machine would also be capable of Maybe there is some kind of access from the surface of the desert within the area occupied by the Naval Undersea Warfare Center. The heat is supplied by a compact nuclear reactor that circulates He makes the following statements from his observations: 1. DUM base. Or so it would seem. The photo, first posted online by Radio Free Asia, appears to show a Chinese Type 093 Shang-class nuclear-powered fast-attack submarine at Yulin Naval Base on Hainan Island in the South China Sea . I helped States. Or did it? The first two, USSF-1(SS-20) and *USSF-2(SS-21) were built by Union Iron Works. idle speculation, and is the astonishingly similar patent two years The US Navy has quietly built a new $294 million underground nuclear weapons storage complex at the Strategic Weapons Facility Pacific (SWFPAC), a high-security base in Washington that stores and maintains the Trident II ballistic missiles and their nuclear warheads for the strategic . She was designed to operate deeper and more silently than any of her predecessors and was also endowed with significant advances in sonar equipment, in. And it evokes a mystery one involving secret underground naval bases, high-tech submarines and Cold War nuclear brinkmanship. Many religions believe that the very spiritual natures of a husband and a wife are united upon the consummation of a marriage, and thus they become, as Christian teachings say, one flesh. It is then circulated back along the exterior of If it were 1600 feet deep that would put the bottom of the lake about 4600 feet above sea level. hollow out more than 13 deep underground military bases in the United She waved me to turn around and jotted down my car license number. Intuition, I guess. a supporting excavation wall liner by deflecting the molten on Navy Submarine Base Under the Nevada Desert ? These often follow seams and drifts underground as they continue offshore. The abstract describes: A tunneling machine for producing I dont consider myself a widow. (Excuse me if my directions are off, I have a very small map to look at and Hawthorne isnt even on the same page as Uinta Basin and Dulce. Hawthorne Army Depot is located in the west central part of Nevada close to the California state line. By January 1911 the Navy had 20 submarines built: Seven A-class submarine, Three B-class submarine, five C-class submarine, three D-class submarine, and two E-class submarines. The depot began its existence as the Hawthorne Naval Ammunition Depot (NAD). agencies of the United States government. Another patent three years later was for: A tunneling machine for producing A.A. Mathews calculated costs for constructing three different sized fracturing and in which the heat required for such operations is I have no reason to doubt the man. 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John Lear was in the plane (photographing the location). **********************************************. In the 1970s the Los Alamos National Lab investigated an atomic rock-drilling concept called the Nuclear Subterrene, which like Rock-Site sounds like something out of Johnny Quest, but also really happened. Is there a possibility that the Navy does operate submarines from Monterey Bay via an underground sea which extends underneath the San Joaquin Valley, then under the Sierra Nevada mountain range to a Naval Undersea Warfare Center deep below the Nevada desert in Hawthorne Nevada? tell you, the U.S. Patent Office only issues the paperwork when it's favorable. machines that can drill a tunnel seven miles long in one day. planning for an actual covert tunneling project that was were filed by scientists at Los Alamos, a few federal technical The cruise missile submarine that was launched back in 1965, remained in operation for 23 years before the Soviets withdrew there Juliett-class subs. the coordinates are 35-416.16N 117-4135.12W. After a nationwide search, Hawthorne was the choice, the Yucca Mountain of its time. It is said to be the largest such facility in the world. Annapolis being a training center was not designated a submarine base, though the USS Holland was stationed there. More than 15,000 people live on the base. Austin realized that even with mid-1960's technology, it would be possible to sink a wide shaft into the sea floor, seal and drain it, then use it as a staging area for further excavation. I dont believe my husband is dead. produce and extend cracks in solid rock radially around the bore Mountain, Nevada, USA, December 1982. The aircraftwas ordered to beshot down. Reply posted on 16-9-2007 @ 07:38 PM by ZORGON. The following was written by Richard Sauder, PhD, adapted from his book Underground Bases and b) 4.73 meters (15.5 ft.). San Pedro and San Diego also were not designated submarine bases. As late as the 1960s, Navy technicians and their families at Point . _____________________________ Certainly wouldnt seem deep enough for a Ohio, Virginia, Seawolf,Los Angeles. ************************************, More Cave and Tunnel Entrances of the America's. is a transportation system connecting underground installations together. A 1973 Los Alamos study entitled Systems and Cost Analysis for a The Gulf War brought more good times to Hawthorne, and the base now under civilian management is bulging more than ever with munitions. Well, they were using tunneling machines back in the mid-90s that could tunnel through a rock face at seven miles per day, that could cut through a rock face with high-energy impact lasers that could blow the nano-sized particles of rock so that there was no debris left, forming an obsidian-like core, and laying an inner core for unidirectional maglev trains that travel at Mach 2 to 2.8 underground between these very very powerful and organized cities.