Intended to offset a Soviet scientific coup in outer space, the secret undersea mission of a huge American submarine was fraught with difficulty and several near failures.

Submarine commander Edward L. "Ned" Beach Jr. was looking forward to a rather ordinary shakedown cruise in early February 1960. Nothing could have prepared him for what the Navy had in mind.

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