I never heard anyone say "October Missile Crisis." Did you grow up in Cuba or a Cuban American community?
replyThanks for sharing. So much yet to learn about this topic.
replyBut sosus was not really about listening. Anyone can listen and hear things underwater. Listening to a sub sounds cool but doesnt answer the real question: where is the sub? What made sosus powerful was the network to merge data from different sensors to triangulate a location. The effort to match contacts between sensors separated by hundreds or thousands of miles, using 1970s tech, must have been immense.
replyWe have all seen sonar waterfall displays, what most do not realize is that those came before the large CRT screens needed to display the data. The "screen" was actually a printer continuously printing the output from a microphone array.
Waterfall printer display is at the 18:52 point. (Footage of these is very rare.) https://youtu.be/fJafj2o3Wo4
"he saved us from a nuclear war during the October Missile Crisis because he had detected a sub that the Russians were thinking was not detectable"
replyHow did this prevent nuclear war? Why would the soviets otherwise have launched a first strike?
I think his friend may have been known as "seaman Beaumont" https://clip.cafe/the-hunt-red-october-1990/seaman-beaumont/
replyErm, are we talking about a hollywood movie or reality?
replyAnd to my knowledge, the october missile crisis has nothing to do with that movie, except submarines are the topic.
I have no idea. The more I hear the more I think the movie was referencing more real happenings than I had understood. Very early in the movie Seaman Jones (the golden ear) and rookie Beaumont are at the sonar station and Jones pulls a little training stunt. He chides the Beaumont: "like Beethoven on the computer, you have labored to produce... a biologic. ... ... A whale, Beaumont, a whale, a marine mammal that knows a hell of a lot more about sonar than you do."
replyI read the book. And there were certainly real references to submarine hunting. But the reference to preventing WW3 by finding a enemy sub is still lost on me.
replyMy personal favorite of the sub movies is Phantom with Ed Harris, and it gets a little more philosophical. Basically in these kinds of dramas, escalation itself is the enemy: the move that triggers the countermove that triggers the countermove that triggers the war that ends the world
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