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    "ocrText": "Uso The water deen in the Arctic Ocean is about 32° Farenheit\nalthough north of Soitsbergen a branch of the Gulf Steam brings it\nup to about 40° Farenheit.\n15. NAUTILUS nuclear power plant performed perfectly with no\ncasualties on the transpolar voyage. It operated more efficiently\nin the cold water. The power plant in the past has onerated con-\ntinuously for as long as 47.5 days.\nTeam a\n16. NAUTILUS obtained a continuous record of water depth and ice\nthickness all the way across the Arctic Ocean. This record will\nprovide our scientists and hydrogranhers with much information not\npreviously known. Over 11,000 individual soundings were obtained\nin the relatively uncharted Arctic Basin.\n17. A contest was held to design a suitable flag for the ship\ncommemorating the transpolar voyage with the prise a 3 day liberty\nin Surope.\n18.0 MAUTILUS has now steamed 91,049 miles submerged, 72% of her\ntime underwayo 36,498 miles of these miles were on the first\nnuclear charge, 57.5% of the total mileare and 54,551 miles on the\nsecond charge, 858 of the total mileage.\n19. NAUTILUS is equinped with automatic control gear for holding\nher exactly on course and depth.\n20. NAUTILUS traveled within 30 miles of the so called Pole of\nInaccessibility, geographic center of the Arctic ice pack.\n21. The Arctic Ocean is bisected by a 9000 foot submerged\nmountain range, the Lomonosov Hidge, running from Canada to\nRussia. This ridge 2500 feet of the surface. Many\nuncharted bottom features were discovered.\n22. Prior to CAUTILUS operations in 1957 the most total mileage\nl'or a U.S. submarine under ice was 50 miles by the Redfish in 1952.\n23. NAUTILUS is the first combatant ship with an inertial nav-\nigation system. Such a system works as well at the North Pole as\nanywhere else, unlike an ordinary ayro compass.\n240 The temnerature inside NAUTILUS during the entire trip WB.S 72°,\nThe relative humidity was 40-50%.\n25. 93 of the trip from Pearl Harbor to Iceland was made sub-\nmerged. The small time on the surface used in surveying the\nice nack edge.\n26. Ice in the Arctic Ocean is constantly in motion due to the\nocean currents and the wind. \"ater openings are always present\neven in the dead of winter although unbroken ice sometimes\nstretches for 10 or more miles.\n-2-"
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