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''Seaview'', a fictional privately owned nuclear submarine, was the setting for the 1961 motion picture ''Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea'', starring Walter Pidgeon,〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, David Hedison Looks Back on Periscope Days )〕 and later for the 1964 – 1968 ABC television series of the same title.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea )〕 ==Historical background== The accomplishments of America's nuclear-powered submarines were major news items in the years before the film ''Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea'' was released. ''Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea'' was the third American science fiction film to feature such ships. The first two were ''It Came from Beneath the Sea'' (1955) and ''The Atomic Submarine'' (1960). The submarine , commissioned in 1954, was the first nuclear-powered ship of any kind. In August 1958, she steamed under the Arctic ice cap to make the first crossing from the Pacific to the Atlantic via the North Pole. On 3 August 1958 she became the first ship to reach the North Pole.〔Anderson, Captain William R., and Keith, Don; ''The Ice Diaries: The Untold Story of the Cold War's Most Daring Mission''; Nashville, Thomas Nelson, 2008; pages 268 through 292〕 On 17 March 1959, the nuclear submarine became the first submarine to surface at the North Pole. While at the Pole, her crew scattered the ashes of Arctic explorer Sir Hubert Wilkins.〔''Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships''〕 The film ''Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea'' begins with ''Seaview'' in the Arctic on the final phase of her sea trials, which include a dive under the Arctic ice cap. was commissioned on 20 December 1959 as America's first nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine (SSBN). On 20 June 1960, she made the first two submerged launches of the Polaris missile. She got underway on the first deterrent patrol on 15 November 1960. In the film, ''Seaview'' fires a ballistic missile with a nuclear warhead to extinguish the "skyfire." Two milestones in underwater exploration were achieved in 1960, the year before the film ''Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea'' was released. From February 16, 1960 to May 10, 1960, the submarine made the first submerged circumnavigation of the world. ''Triton'' observed and photographed Guam extensively through her periscope during this mission, without being detected by the U.S. Navy on Guam.〔Beach, Captain Edward L.; ''Around the World Submerged: The Voyage of the Triton''; Annapolis, Bluejacket Books, Naval Institute Press, 1962 (Bluejacket Books edition 2001); page 292, and pages 197 through 201〕 In the film, ''Seaview's'' voyage to the firing point follows much of the same track that ''Triton'' took on her circumnavigation: south through the Atlantic Ocean, around Cape Horn, and then northwest across the Pacific Ocean to the firing point near Guam. ''Seaview's'' bow and stern are radically different from ''Triton's'', but ''Seaview's'' long, slim hull resembles the hull of ''Triton''. On January 23, 1960, Jacques Piccard and Lieutenant Don Walsh (USN), in the bathyscaphe ''Trieste'', made the first descent to the bottom of the Challenger Deep. The Challenger Deep is the deepest surveyed spot in the world's oceans, and is located in the Mariana Trench, southwest of Guam.〔"Navy's Bathyscaph Dives 7 Miles in Pacific Trench"; ''The New York Times''; January 24, 1960; page 1〕 In the film, ''Seaview'' is attacked by another submarine as she approaches the firing point. Admiral Nelson advises Captain Crane to dive into the Mariana Trench to escape, claiming ''Seaview'' is the only submarine that can survive the pressure of the trench. The attacking sub is crushed by the pressure when it follows ''Seaview'' into the trench. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「USOS Seaview」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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