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John is on hiatus for the next several weeks, so please enjoy this replay: It is ofter forgotten that just 60 years ago, man knew more about the surface of the moon than about was under the Artic icecap. Then, with the coming of nuclear powered submarines in the late 1950's, the U.S. Navy began to explore/operate under the polar pack, and the Cold War took a new turn. Following graduation from the United States Naval Academy in 1955, Alfred McLaren took a career path that would make him one of the greatest Arctic explorers of all time. Following a tour aboard USS Greenfish (SS 351), Maclaren moved over to his first nuclear powered submarine, USS Seadragon (SSN 584), and began a career of Arctic exploration. This culminated in the late 1960s when he was part of the crew of USS Queenfish (SSN 651), which he commanded on a landmark under ice survey of the Siberian Continental Shelf. To learn more about Capt. McLaren, the submarines that he served on, and his explorations/missions during his years of service on