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Master and Commander
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Location: Port Ludlow, WA (the Olympic Penninsula) | Subject: USS Odax SS-484 Surfacing
Date and Place of excercise unknown. Sent in by Gary Parker from a Lt. that was on diving officer of the watch at the time. Odax sold to Brazil circa 1972. Song is"Trouble in Paradise" - enjoy! |
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Master and Commander
Posts: 2191
Location: Port Ludlow, WA (the Olympic Penninsula) | Subject: RE: USS Odax SS-484 Surfacing
Changed the song from that dumb one that I originally posted this morning to the one I meant to put on. This is a song by Jane Siberry called "Calling all Angels" and was the ending (theme) song from the movie "Pay It Forward"... If you watched that last scene in this movie with all the traffic snaking it's way up the hill to pay tribute - with this song playing in the background and you didn't get a little choked up, you had better go get a feeling checkup! |
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COMSUBBBS
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Location: Summerville, SC | Subject: RE: USS Odax SS-484 Surfacing
This picture of the Odax must be dated prior to the 60's. Odax had the Guppy III conversion(rounded bow) when I reported aboard the summer of '62 in the Chasn Shipyard. During that overhaul the Odax got the fiberglas clamshell super structure and N. Atlantic sail. |
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COMSUBBBS
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Location: Kansas City Missouri | Subject: RE: USS Odax SS-484 Surfacing
This is what the Lt. sent me with the pic.
Thanks for the pix. In return, I'll share an official Navy photo of Odax surfacing at at 25-degree up angle between an aircraft carrier in the foreground and a destroyer in the background, in the summer of 1970. We were somewhere in the Norwegian Sea or the North Sea at the time. Again, I was diving officer for this maneuver.
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COMSUBBBS
Posts: 6180
Location: Summerville, SC | Subject: RE: USS Odax SS-484 Surfacing
That picture does appear on the Odax website and right alongside of that picture is another with Odax going in the opposite direction titled Odax Diving, only this time it has a guppyIII bow.
Any way, thanks for the info, Gary. |
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USS Odax SS-484 Surfacing
