May 19, 1965 
Captain John E, Long 
Nautilus Press, Inc* 
739 National Press Building 
Washington, 33. C. 20004 
Bear Johns 
You were kind enough souse time ago to offer to let me have a spare 
copy or two of your Ocean Sg ienee Mews * What I am particularly Interested 
in at this time are Noe. ll' arrl”l2 of Vol. 7* Is it too much to ask for 
two copies of each? 
I will tell you what le bugging me, I am keen on getting a nuclear 
submarine for working under the ice, both the floes in the north and the 
shelves in Antarctica, It would have to be one of our wartime subs 
converted to the purpose, and I feel that the missile chamber with a 
ventral hatch and requisite air pressure could be a dredging platform . , , 
so that we could haul up bottom materials from ary reasonable depth, urg yAW-lel U 
The depth limitation on subsi® about 4(30 feet, but/Yor dredging 
would |@yi winch and cable/Jxt&ide the submersible. Such a submarine TKt s-t*/-X4 
could be reconverted to wartime use because the missile chamber would be 
left intact. 
In your Ocean Science News I have been avidly following all word 
about submarines",' ' and in No. 11 they are actually building a research 
one with private capital. 
But nothing in the market today can do for me what Simon Lake's old 
Nautilus was able to do. Through such a hatch divers could climb atop 
im 
To me, the possibilities of study and collecting in the otherwise 
inaccessible areas under the ice sheets are infinite. Though I have 
talked this matter up with a number of people, I have been told that 
unless I put in a concrete proposal I shall get nowhere. It has even 
been said that with such a proposal they will actually construct me the 
machine 1 '! want. 
Sincerely, 
Research Associate 
