Answers submarine QOTW August 13, 2013

Background found where the following QUESTIONS of the WEEK were originally posed --- here. 

ANSWERS (and link to news film)

1 - What U.S. nuclear submarine made film history off Greenland?  ans: In 1960 USS Seadragon (SSN-584) was filmed among ice flows off Greenland in Atomic Submarine Blazes New Trail to North Pole.  Here's a 1 minute, b&w news clip of the event showing some crew above and below decks, on the bridge, and a periscope view.
 

 2 - What is the capital city of Greenland?  ans: Nuuk is the capital and largest city of Greenland. Nuuk, the Kalaallisut word for "cape",  is so named due its location at the end of the Nuup Kangerlua fjord on the eastern shore of the Labrador Sea.

3 - For what is the GIUK gap named?  ans: The GIUK gap,  a term typically used in military topics, is a northern Atlantic Ocean area that forms a naval warfare choke point between three landmasses.  GIUK is an acronym for Greenland, Iceland, and the United Kingdom.

Submarines are always silent and strange.

Best Cold War Submarine Movie with no sub

The movie The Bedford Incident (1965) was produced in stark black & white (trailer) when technicolor had long been a film standard.  Although the movie's American destroyer (DLG-113) captain knows an unseen Soviet sub is armed with a nuclear torpedo, involvement of a nuclear-armed Soviet sub in 1962's Cuban Missile Crisis, would not have been guessed by most moviegoers until revelaed after Cold War's end:

"The film [now] bears an uncanny resemblance to the real-life, forced surfacing of Soviet submarine B-59 during the Cuban missile crisis of October, 1962. Unknown to the American destroyers hunting B-59, it carried a nuclear torpedo, and the [submarine B-59's] captain, thinking he was under attack and that "World War III" might be going on up on the surface, considered using his weapon."  source

The film has an IMDB rating of 7.4,  which compares very favorably to The Hunt for Red October (1990)'s 7.6 IMBD rating as I write.  M.E. recommends the film to sub enthusiasts who have never seen it. Vigilis plans to view it again soon.

USS Bedford (DLG-113) detects a Soviet submarine off Greenland's coast (territorial waters at entrance of the J.C. Jacobsen Fjord.)

QUESTIONS of the WEEK

1 - What U.S. nuclear submarine made film history off Greenland?

2 - What is the capital city of Greenland?

3 - For what is the GIUK gap named?

Answers: Friday, 16 AUG 2013

Submarines are always silent and strange.