Crewmen load supplies aboard a Benjamin Franklin Class nuclear-powered strategic missile submarine prior to departure to participate in Exercise Ocean Venture '81
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Subject Operation/Series: OCEAN VENTURE '81
Base: Kings Bay
State: Georgia (GA)
Country: United States Of America (USA)
Scene Camera Operator: JO1 Lon Cabot
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
Beginning in ancient times, humans sought to operate under the water. The legendary origins of the submarine stretch back to 332 BC with a tale about Alexander the Great being lowered into the sea in a glass barrel to study fish. The submarine concept was thereafter consigned to the backwaters of history for some 1,800 years. This collection presents various submarines: from small and simple to nuclear-powered underwater behemoths.
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