I recently stumbled across this internet story posted by a salty former O-Ganger, which included (I believe – I skimmed more than actually read the article) his small contempt for certain diesel powered submersibles. To this crusty lad, I provide assurances that quality ice cream can be made out of a turd, and that the [...]
TIME Magazine, 1981:
The released Soviet sub heads for port and hard questions
The antiquated gray submarine was towed part of the way down the channel it had navigated on its own ten days before. Finally it cast off. Then, joining the flotilla of naval vessels hovering anxiously beyond the twelve-nautical-mi. limit, Soviet “Whiskey”-class [...]