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Aeron, Mark

 
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Synopsis

Eight hundred feet below the surface, a hundred and thirty-five people are trusting their lives to a machine almost no one is allowed to see.
Somewhere in the world's oceans right now, a Virginia-class submarine is doing what no other machine on Earth can do: disappearing completely. No satellite can find her. No sonar can hear her coming. And the crew inside her will spend up to six months without sunlight, without fresh air, and without any guarantee they'll come home unchanged.
Ghosts of the Deep takes you inside the most advanced attack submarine ever built by the United States Navy — from the billion-dollar failure that almost ended the program before it began, to the secret sister ship so classified even its own mission name raises more questions than it answers.
Inside, you'll discover:
• The costly mistake that nearly cost America its submarine advantage
• The classified vessel hiding in plain sight within the fleet
• What it's really like to live and survive for months in a steel tube built for fewer people than it carries
• How a single grounding exposed a fleet with no room left for error
• The missile system turning one submarine into a floating arsenal
• The new global alliance quietly reshaping who commands the deep next
This book is for anyone drawn to military history, naval engineering, or the hidden machinery behind modern power — and for anyone who's ever wondered what it actually takes to serve somewhere no one can see you.
The ocean has always kept its secrets. This is the one it finally gave up.

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