Description: Charting the Siberian continental shelf during the height of the Cold War
Review Quotes: "Unknown Waters, the story of the hazardous exploration by the USS Queenfish, is a splendid adventure. Captain McLaren's spellbinding account of his unparalleled voyage into the unknown beneath the ice off Siberia constitutes a treasure house of knowledge never before conceived of a dark and forbidding part of the globe. Audacious as well as entertaining!" --Clive Cussler, Chairman, National Underwater Marine Agency
"Captain McLaren, a highly decorated submarine officer and one of the world's foremost Arctic scientists, has written a riveting account of the first hydrographic survey of the Soviet Union's Siberian coastline by a nuclear submarine. Unknown Waters is a valuable addition to the history of arctic operations by United States submarines describing hazardous operations in shallow, ice-covered waters with irregular bottoms and deep ice drafts. Dr. McLaren skillfully weaves into the exciting operations an interesting description of the seas and islands north of Siberia including early explorations of this Northern Sea Route so important to Russia." --VADM. John H. Nicholson, USN (Ret.), commanding officer, USS Sargo (SSN-583)
"This memoir is very engaging. . . . It provides a first-person view of submarine under-ice operations that appears in very few other works." --Gary E. Weir, author of Rising Tide: The Untold Story of the Russian Submarines that Fought the Cold War