Page 15: of Maritime Reporter Magazine (June 15, 1970)

The problem here isn't finding the oil, it's getting the oil out.

There may be more oil up in the Arctic than anywhere else in the

Western Hemisphere.

Exploring and drilling for it in sub-zero temperatures is tough enough. Having to force your way through yards-thick ice or lay down miles of pipeline in frozen tundra doesn't make things any easier.

Any way you look at it, getting crude oil out of the North is a matter of fighting the arctic weather.

Any way but one.

With a nuclear-powered submarine. We've built 37 of them since we launched the Nautilus in 1954. Our new concept is for a submarine tanker 900 feet long. It could economically and efficiently travel from the Arctic to ice-free North Atlantic ports the way Nautilus and other nuclear submarines proved it could be done. Under the ice.

It could transport oil the year round, at a sustained speed under- water, where bad weather and arctic surface ice conditions don't exist. It could even load its 170,000-ton cargo underwater. Larger submarine tankers carrying up to 300,000 tons of oil could be built from the same design.

It's another challenging example of how we can put technology to work solving problems from the bottom of the sea to outer space...and a good bit in between.

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