Today it reads Naval Undersea Warfare Center. If so, then sry, 1982/83. (SSBN-733) USS Nevada (SSBN-733) off the United States East Coast on her commissioning day, 16 August 1986. Security for the 3,000 bunkers at NAD was provided by the U.S. Marine Corps. However, the depot was subsequently dropped from the BRAC list, and thus will continue to operate. He told me that the techs that worked in the tubes were called tubemoles. for the 3.05 meter (10 foot) tunnel using the NSTM. So it would seem. Many of the United States submarine bases were closed after the war. We have bunkers; we have multilevel tunnel complexes; we have vertical shafts just like youll find over there. [7] The USS Wyoming and other Arkansas-class monitors were converted into submarine tenders, as they had low sides, good for mooring a submarine on her side. On 16 October 1900, the USS Holland departed for her first port, United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland for crew training. Most of the entrances are too small for submarine investigation; and many that are large enough lie in waters that are too deep. Once a month, our reservists go out and do a data sweep, Manofsky said. the inventors are from Los Alamos, New Mexico. The nuclear subterrene has an advantage over mechanical TBMs in that Los Alamos National Laboratory, in New Mexico. She was designed to operate deeper and more silently than any of her predecessors and was also endowed with significant advances in sonar equipment, in. The facilitys area 147,000 Acres (Leased/Owned) and .6M Sq. Presently, there are 129 deep The next two, F-3 and F-4 were built by Moran Brosthers in Seattle, Washington in 1912. This reduced the need to return to permanent bases farther away. (Hawthorne is about 5 hours drive from Las Vegas and about two and a half hours drive from Reno.). _____________________________ They have laser-drilling of Lancaster. diameters were: a) 3.05 meters (10 ft.) Whether or not nuclear subterrene tunneling machines have been used, It is found throughout the vast majority of the planet. Many other types of TBMs are used by many government agencies, As late as the 1960s, Navy technicians and their families at Point . ' The club house is a favorite meeting place for local decision-makers. In 1995 Day & Zimmermann/Basil Corporation, Radnor, Pennsylvania, was awarded a $5,487,390 modification to a cost plus award fee contract for the operation and maintenance of a government owned/contractor operated facility. This report has a number of interesting The A.A. Mathews Construction *************** Why would we want a submarine base in Nevada ? Reply posted on 16-9-2007 @ 07:38 PM by ZORGON. Checking with gravity anomaly maps proved that there are large cavities under the ground in that area. A penalty of 30 percent was found is of a shape and is propelled under sufficient pressure to [1] Torpedo Boat Station, also was not designated a submarine base by the US Navy, being a private company with Navy personnel stationed there.[2]. military installations and all information is highly restricted. One response was from a retired (conventional submarine duty? The underground. A court of inquiry investigating the explosion recommended that a depot be established in a remote area within 1,000miles (1,600km) of the west coast to serve the Pacific area. The Transamerican Underground Subshuttle System (T.A.U.S.S.) to talk of massive underground installations in places like Area enables us to continue our work. **********************************. I am not good at judging lake depths, maybe 100 feet? Ive heard of saline lakes in California, Mono lake comes to mind : Chapter 36 - The Final Invasion of the U.S.?? [8][9][10], The current US Navy fleet of nuclear submarines never need to be refueled. The United States Atomic Energy Commission and the United States The expanded eastern portion of the property is known as the S-4 site, others allege its the southwest corner of Area 51. hollow out more than 13 deep underground military bases in the United And maybe if you go deep enough there is a huge part of the Pacific Ocean in which the. this way the nuclear subterrene slices through the rock like a They have been In such heady times, dreams of colonizing the continental shelf within a generation seemed like sober predictions. Just drive in; if there is a security guard on duty, just say Golf Course and youre in. Maybe, for some reason, the Navy uses that underground ocean (actually its not an 'underground ocean' its the same level as the rest of the Pacific, it is the land that is 'above water' so to speak) to travel around. But lets assume that it might be true. When oil companies began pumping oil out of the ground beneath Long Beach it was soon learned that the entire city BEGAN SINKING INTO THE OCEAN! The Gulf War brought more good times to Hawthorne, and the base now under civilian management is bulging more than ever with munitions. about this activity. fracturing and in which the heat required for such operations is A.A. Mathews calculated costs for constructing three different sized Then, after 15 years of . Im proud to show you a very cool sign of one of the biggest underground, I searched the forum before and there was no match for it. Impossible? 150 feet? Submarine bases are military bases that offer good fleet anchorage and are designed to refuel and resupply submarines. That is why the Mega Search turned up NOTHING. In 1995 Day & Zimmermann/Basil Corporation, Radnor, Pennsylvania, was awarded a $5,487,390 modification to a cost plus award fee contract for the operation and maintenance of a government owned/contractor operated facility. Anybody doing pre-deployment training for Afghanistan should be coming to China Lake, he said. One response was from a retired (conventional submarine duty? Maybe longer. Ft. boring equipment will grind up the rock and soil detached by the See also [ edit] Wikimedia Commons has media related to Naval Museum Balaklava. U.S. Department of Energy. glass-lined tunnel behind them. The tunnels are so spread out that the job takes a full day. tunnels in the Southern California area in 1974. A WELL-KNOWN U.S. nuclear submarine lost its way in these passages and disappeared forever. (This river would probably have been a partially water-filled cave with a large stream or river flowing through it, rather than an entirely underwater passage, since 27 miles would undoubtedly be entirely out of the question if it were all underwater travel, with present diving technology Branton). ARE YOU READY TO LEARN ABOUT THE THINGS THAT MOVE ABOUT BELOW YOUR FEET? Submarine Tender carried fuel for the submarines, food for the crew, and living quarters for the crew to rest while the sub was being serviced. During that time I have driven from Las Vegas to Reno many times and was always intrigued at the guard gate and sign just before entering the town of Hawthorne. The Most tunneling activity is under of the regions of the West where there is rumored to be a secret cost effective to use NSTMs than mechanical TBMs? Williams explains that not all of the areas in question are actually resting or floating on the ocean, however there are allegedly many subterranean cavities below the western U.S., and they are not limited to California, and many of them consist of very large water-filled aqua-systems. However, the depot was subsequently dropped from the BRAC list, and thus will continue to operate. It was reported to have been lost IN OPEN SEA ELSEWHERE to keep the American people in total ignorance and to justify an enormous pay-off to an eccentric U.S. billionaire (who died in recent years) for providing the fictitious recovery effort. Once a month, our reservists go out and do a data sweep, Manofsky said. ******************* As late as the 1960s, Navy technicians and their families at Point . The submarine tender allowed the submarine to operate at its patrol area long, operating out of advanced bases in the field. It goes down seven levels and over 2.5 miles deep. The community of Hamlet in New Suffolk, New York claims to be the first submarine base in the United States. Some of them look exactly like Afghan aqueducts.. conditions such as soft, wet, bouldery ground or very hard rock, the NSTMs are far more effective. It used to read Naval Undersea Warfare Training Center. USS. The peak number of US submarine bases was during World War II, as the submarine was well suited for fighting in the vast Pacific War, often in enemy waters. (Excuse me if my directions are off, I have a very small map to look at and Hawthorne isnt even on the same page as Uinta Basin and Dulce. He also told me about the TUBES, the Navy underground transportation system. Nuclear subterrenes work by melting their way through the rock and Nuclear Subterrene Tunneling Machine: A Preliminary Study, later only a wild coincidence? I would very much like more information on this topic. While NASA gathered ever more momentum with monthly Gemini flights and a new Mission Control, the success of Sealab II and the CONSHELF III underwater habitat led to a presidential commission on oceanography and a bigger undersea commitment. The depot is run by an independent contractor under an agreement with the government. (b) formation of both I have no reason to doubt the man. agencies of the United States government. In 1913 the F-class submarines were stationed at San Pedro, California and Naval Base San Diego. produce and extend cracks in solid rock radially around the bore Much like dry caverns do, heights and depths vary a great deal and in some cases, two or more caverns or passageways pass over or under each other at different depths. In 1998-1999, the facility was used to destroy the U.S. stockpile of M687 chemical artillery shells and separate from them their 505 tons (458 metric tons) of binary precursor chemicals. Tunnels: A tunnel-boring machine could be lowered into the shaft in pieces and then assembled to bore out more tunnels, including one for a small modular nuclear reactor much like those used at Camp Century in Greenland and McMurdo Base in Antarctica. A 1971 study discussed various methods of sea-floor excavation, but by then most man-in-the-sea development was classified. There have also been rumors that there is an underground facility in the area. One incident which tends to confirm the fact that California is in fact floating on the ocean was a story which made the headlines in recent years. I dont believe my husband is dead. But as history has proven time and again, even the weirdest fantasies have their real-life counterparts. Many years ago a Navy friend of mine told me about a hidden Navy base in LAKE TAHOE I had completely forgotten about that. It is a shame the US spends more on it's military then it does on education. **********************************************. There is something mythic and compelling about seashore scarps and naval basessomething drawing on archetypal imagery of treasure concealed in cave waters open to the sea. be very cost effective, compared to conventional TBMs. mile, and they again are basically whole cities underground. Mountain, Nevada, USA, December 1982. NOTE (clarification): I believe the secret Navy Base at Lake Tahoe exists because a Navy SEAL freind of mine, who would have definately been in a position to know, told me it was there. (We are deleting this section due to the possibility of undue stress and fear which may result from its disclosure. You certainly dont see any obvious Navy transports above ground like you see Air Force Transports. In 1984, after nearly 50 years without a major mishap, one of the storage bunkers exploded. Trona, CA, 35 45.5 N 1 7722.6 W -several miles northwest of Trona, directly under . He definitely cannot be labeled as a crackpot, lunatic or publicity-seeker. Hawthorne is on the main Las Vegas-Reno highway and serves as Nevadas gateway to Yosemite and the eastern Sierra via the Pole Line Road (Nevada 359) connecting with US 395 and the Tioga Pass. The kerf is the outside boundary of the tunnel wall that a boring including the 'nuclear powered TBM' [NTBM] that melts solid rock NOTE : Unlikely. I told her that I hadnt had time to take a picture and that I was just happened to be leaving at that moment. John there can't be a submarine base under the Nevada desert. Navy Submarine Base Under the Nevada Desert ? Below is a chart on which I have drawn two lines representing these channels between Monterey Bay and Hawthorne. the tunnel by the tunnel machine, where it will form a hard, glassy WOW! Would you believe Department of Defense documents that, The documents are all here if your afraid the site will bite too bad its where I store all the. Established in 1978, the base is home to submarine group 10, submarine squadrons 16 and 20, trident training facility. It was in this environment that C.F. submarine base nevada. According to Austin, one Nova Scotia mine, Dominion Coals Cape Breton operation, consisted of a complex of many consolidated undersea mines ranging in depth from 200 to 2,700 feet below the sea floor, with a water cover of 60 to 100 feet. It is then circulated back along the exterior of var sc_invisible=1; We could always tell when something was wrong with each other. This is his story. Also, because of recent international events which may have resulted in a solution to this problem. From Dr Bill Deagle's December 2006 Granada Forum Lecture: 3. California. It is approximately two hours southeast of Reno on US Highway 95. Puerto Rico? If the rumors are true, machines soil, actually vitrifying it as they go, and leaving a neat, solidly John revealed its the location and he thinks the Base Commander was pissed. As I rolled down the window and lifted my camera I heard a bunch of shouting and guards waving their arms from the guard shack. Desert Submarine Base? Or did it? Security for the 3,000 bunkers at NAD was provided by the U.S. Marine Corps. the tunnel face circumscribed by the kerf with powered The photo, first posted online by Radio Free Asia, appears to show a Chinese Type 093 Shang-class nuclear-powered fast-attack submarine at Yulin Naval Base on Hainan Island in the South China Sea . Divers have traveled along an underground river 27 miles toward the Las Vegas area before having to turn around.. The average depth of these bases is over a a supporting excavation wall liner by deflecting the molten Fort Huachuca. History: In 1977, NAD was transferred to the Army, and renamed the Hawthorne Army Ammunition Plant (HWAAP). More Cave and Tunnel Entrances of the Americas, The Secrets of the Mojave: Or, The Conspiracy Against Reality, 2015: According to the Macuxi Indians of the Amazon: Theres An Entire World Inside Our Planet, 1992: Underground Bases in Southern California. In 1917 F-class submarines were stationed at San Diego and San Diego's Point Loma. It cant be very deep. Its a big desert with many possibilities. kerry@projectcamelot.org INDIA'S UNDERGROUND SUBMARINE BASE & 20 NEW SUBMARINES: TOP 5 FACTSPROJECT VARSHAIntroduction:A new naval base being developed under Project Varsha for the I. There you have it: a tunneling machine that creates no muck, and leaves a smooth, vitreous (glassy) tunnel Comparing the cost of using NSTMs to It is interesting to note that almost all of the reports at the time stated the ship had disappeared, or was lost, not sunk! One woman whose husband was on the ill-fated ship reported her belief that her husband was still ALIVE! This incident involved an oil discovery beneath Long Beach, California. States. National Lab is itself the subject of considerable rumors about In 1980, HWAAP was redesigned as a government-owned contractor-operated facility. Babbitt was named for the 2nd Commander of NAD Hawthorne, H.S. She then advised me that she should call the Military Police to confiscate my camera. machine gouges out as it bores through the ground or rock. The base was said to be virtually indestructible and designed to survive a direct atomic impact. According to our knowledge, the only nuclear submarines ever to disappear under mysterious circumstances were the U.S.S THRESHER and the U.S.S. Some of them look exactly like Afghan aqueducts.. My sources tell me that the area you speak of is serviced by the high speed ( supersonic) mag trains that crisscross the country. 4. Beginning in September 1930 and during World War II, 600 Marines were assigned to the facility. The base, which is located near St Marys in Camden County, Georgia, is the home port for the US Navy Atlantic Fleet's Trident nuclear-powered submarine fleet. Lake Tahoe is 6200 ft. above mean sea level. She then advised me that she should call the. tunneling cost analysis is thought provoking. So. ************************************ Construction began on Hawthorne NAD in July 1928, and NAD received its first shipment of high explosives on October 19, 1930. Most of the entrances lie just off the Continental Shelf (ie. Ubehebe Crater system contains several volcanic craters, cinder cones and ash hills, all relics from an explosive steam eruption about 2,000 years ago, when rising magma met an underground lake. Finally, the southern California location that was chosen for A WELL-KNOWN U.S. nuclear submarine lost its way in these passages and disappeared forever. tell you, the U.S. Patent Office only issues the paperwork when it's