Ice Station Nautilus (40 page)

P
AUL
T
OLBERT
(Commander), Commanding Officer

G
EORGE
S
ITES
(Lieutenant Commander), Executive Officer

R
OGER
S
WENSON
(Lieutenant Commander), Engineer Officer

M
ARK
L
IVINGSTON
(Lieutenant), Weapons Officer

S
COTT
M
OLITOR
(Lieutenant), junior officer

JP V
AUGH
(Lieutenant), junior officer

C
HIEFS

P
AUL
M
URGO
(Sonar Technician Master Chief), Chief of the Boat

M
IKE
M
ORAN
(Electricians Mate Chief), Electrical Division Chief

L
ARRY
J
OHNSON
(Machinist Mate Chief), Auxiliary Division Chief

T
ONY
S
CALISE
(Machinist Mate Chief), Machinery Division Chief

B
OB
B
USH
(Sonar Technician Chief), Sonar Division Chief

P
ETTY
O
FFICERS AND
S
EAMEN

A
RT
T
HOMPSON
(Electrician’s Mate First Class), Electrical Division

T
IM
B
RANDON
(Electrician’s Mate First Class), Electrical Division

A
LLEN
T
ERRILL
(Electrician’s Mate Second Class), Electrical Division

S
COTT
T
URK
(Machinist Mate Third Class), Engine Room Forward Watch

B
OB
H
ORNSEY
(Electronics Technician Second Class), Quartermaster

J
OE
H
IPP
(Electronics Technician First Class), Propulsion Plant Operator

T
OM
P
HILLIPS
(Fire Control Technician Second Class), Plots Operator

R
EGGIE
T
HURLOW
(Sonar Technician Second Class), Broadband Operator

D
AVID
L
ORMS
(Seaman), Phone Talker

USS
MICHIGAN
  (OHIO CLASS GUIDED MISSILE SUBMARINE)—CREW

M
URRAY
W
ILSON
(Captain), Commanding Officer

T
ERRY
S
PARKS
(Lieutenant Commander), Executive Officer

K
ELLY
H
AAS
(Lieutenant Commander), Supply Officer

M
ARCUS
B
ENJAMIN
(Lieutenant), Weapons Officer

B
ARBARA
L
AKE
(Lieutenant), Junior Officer

M
ARK
D
E
C
RISPINO
(Lieutenant), Junior Officer

P
AT
L
EENSTRA
(Electronics Technician Second Class), Quartermaster

C
HRIS
M
ALOCSAY
(Fire Control Technician Second Class), Fire Control Technician of the Watch

USS
MICHIGAN
—SEAL DETACHMENT

J
OHN
M
C
N
EIL
(Commander), SEAL Team Commander

J
AKE
H
ARRISON
(Lieutenant), SEAL Platoon Officer-in-Charge

L
ORIE
A
LLEN
(Lieutenant), SEAL Platoon Officer-in-Charge

J
EFF
S
TONE
(Special Warfare Operator Chief), fire team leader

T
IM
O
LIVER
(Special Warfare Operator First Class), sniper

B
RAD
K
RATOVIL
(Special Warfare Operator Second Class), breacher

J
IM
H
AY
(Special Warfare Operator Second Class), communicator

J
OE
A
LEO
(Commander), Medical Officer

UNDERSEA RESCUE COMMAND

N
ED
S
TEEL
(Commander), Commanding Officer

M
ARLIN
C
RIDER
(Lieutenant Commander), Executive Officer

P
ETER
T
ARBOTTOM
, lead contractor for Phoenix International

B
OB
E
NNIS
, Pressurized Rescue Module (PRM) Attendant

A
RT
G
LOVER
, Pressurized Rescue Module (PRM) Attendant

E
DDIE
S
TANKIEWICZ
(Machinist Mate Chief), Disabled Submarine team member

R
OY
A
RMSTRONG
(Navy Diver First Class), Atmospheric Diving Suit pilot

ARCTIC SUBMARINE LABORATORY

B
OBBY
P
LEASANT
, director

V
ANCE
V
ERBECK
, technical director

P
AUL
L
EONE
, ice pilot

ICE STATION NAUTILUS

E
RIC
D
AHLENBURG
(Vice Admiral), On-Scene Commander

M
IKE
N
AUGHTON
(Captain), Coordinator, Rescue Forces

N
ED
S
TEEL
(Commander), Rescue Element Commander

V
ANCE
V
ERBECK
, ice camp Officer-in-Charge (OIC)

P
AUL
L
EONE
, ice pilot

A
LYSSA
M
ARTIN
, above-ice sonar array operator

S
COTT
W
ALWORTH
, RATS operator

F
RANK
S
ALIMBENE
, Casa C-212 pilot

S
ALLY
F
IREBAUGH
, cook

OFFICE OF NAVAL INTELLIGENCE

P
AM
B
RUCE
, supervisor

G
REG
H
ARTFIELD
, Borei class submarine expert

S
TU
B
ERMAN
, Bulava missile expert

RUSSIAN CHARACTERS

RUSSIAN FEDERATION ADMINISTRATION

Y
URI
K
ALININ
, president

B
ORIS
C
HERNOV
, minister of defense

M
AKSIM
P
OSNIAK
, director of security and disarmament, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

FLEET COMMANDERS

G
EORGIY
I
VANOV
(Fleet Admiral), Commander-in-Chief, Russian Navy

O
LEG
L
IPOVSKY
(Admiral), Commander, Northern Fleet

L
EONID
S
HIMKO
(Rear Admiral), Commander, 12th Squadron

K-535
YURY DOLGORUKY
  (BOREI CLASS BALLISTIC MISSILE SUBMARINE)

N
ICHOLAI
S
TEPANOV
(Captain First Rank), Commanding Officer

D
MITRI
P
AVLOV
(Captain Second Rank), First Officer

A
NTON
T
OPOLSKI
(Captain Third Rank), Navigating Officer

M
IKHAIL
E
VANOFF
(Captain Lieutenant), Central Command Post Watch Officer

I
VAN
K
HUDOZHNIK
(Senior Lieutenant), Torpedo Division Officer

A
NDREI
P
OPOVICH
(Senior Michman), Torpedo Division Leading Petty Officer

O
LEG
D
EVIN
(Starshina First Class), Torpedo Division Petty Officer

E
RIK
G
LINKA
(Michman), Electric Navigation Party Technician

E
GOR
L
UKIN
(Chief Ship Starshina), Senior Enlisted

I
VAN
K
OVALESKI
(Captain of the Medical Service), Medical Officer

K-157
VEPR
  (AKULA II CLASS NUCLEAR ATTACK SUBMARINE)

M
ATVEY
B
ACZEWSKI
(Captain Second Rank), Commanding Officer

P
ETR
L
UKOV
(Captain Third Rank), First Officer

L
UDVIG
D
OLINSKI
(Captain Lieutenant), Central Command Post Watch Officer

E
UGENY
C
HABAN
(Lieutenant), Duty Officer

K-329
SEVERODVINSK
  (YASEN CLASS NUCLEAR ATTACK SUBMARINE)

J
OSEF
B
UFFANOV
(Captain Second Rank), Commanding Officer

A
NTON
N
OVIKOFF
(Captain Third Rank), First Officer

D
MITRI
R
ONIN
(Captain Lieutenant), Central Command Post Watch Officer

ICE CAMP BARNEO /
MIKHAIL RUDNITSKY

D
EMIL
P
OLESKI
, ice camp director

J
ULIUS
R
AILA
, Chief of Search and Rescue Services

POLAR SPETSNAZ UNIT

J
OSEF
K
LOKOV
(Captain First Rank), Commanding Officer

G
LEB
L
EONOV
(Captain Second Rank), Executive Officer

E
RIK
T
OPOLSKI
(Captain Lieutenant), platoon leader

K
IRIL
B
OGANOV
(Captain Lieutenant), platoon leader

N
ICHOLAI
O
VECHKIN
(Starshina First Class), patrol

AS-34 DEEP SUBMERGENCE RESCUE VEHICLE

M
IKHAIL
G
RUSHENKO
, rescue team member

P
AVEL
D
ANILOV
, rescue team member

OTHER RUSSIAN CHARACTERS

D
ANIL
K
RASINSKI
(Michman), Operations Center Radioman

E
DUARD
D
AVYDOV
(Captain Second Rank), Intelligence Center Watch Officer

AUTHOR’S NOTE

I hope you enjoyed reading
Ice Station Nautilus
!

This was both a fun and difficult book to write, in that it allowed me to explore a region where submarines do not routinely operate, taking the reader both above and below the ice. Although I have not operated below the ice, I was fortunate to have visited a base camp atop the polar ice cap a few years ago while two submarines were shooting exercise torpedoes at each other, and I assisted with the torpedo recovery through the ice. I broke my hand while I was up there, and I’d like to say it was while saving the ice camp by wrestling a polar bear, but the truth is less exciting.

There are a lot of technical issues I did not explore in
Ice Station Nautilus
. I only scratched the surface with respect to the issues USS
North Dakota
’s crew would have to deal with if trapped beneath the polar ice cap without power. You could write an entire book covering the plethora of problems that would arise and how they would need to be addressed, plus there are issues with reactor cooling and recovery that make my head hurt when I think about them. Addressing every issue and how each would be resolved would have bogged
Ice Station Nautilus
down with technical details that are more appropriate for a nonfiction book on the topic rather than a novel, where the focus is plot and pacing.

Also, some of the tactics described in
Ice Station Nautilus
were generic and not accurate. For example, torpedo employment and evasion tactics are classified and cannot be accurately represented in this novel. The dialogue also isn’t 100 percent accurate. If it were, much of it would be unintelligible to the average reader. To help the story move along without getting bogged down in acronyms, technical details, and other Navy jargon, I simplified the dialogue and description of shipboard operations and weapon systems.

For all of the above, I apologize. I did my best to keep everything as close to real life as possible while developing a suspenseful, page-turning novel. Hopefully it all worked out, and you enjoyed reading
Ice Station Nautilus
.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

RICK CAMPBELL
is a retired navy commander who spent more than twenty years on multiple submarine tours. On his last tour, he was one of the two men whose permission was required to launch the submarine’s nuclear warhead–tipped missiles. Campbell, the author of
The Trident Deception
and
Empire Rises,
lives with his family in the greater Washington, D.C., area. You can sign up for email updates
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