Soviet submarine K-314 was unable to spot the USS Kitty Hawk supercarrier after an entire day of poor weather conditions and a fog so deep that the captain couldn’t see mere feet from his vessel.
The submarine had been sent to the Sea of Japan to trail an American Navy task force performing training exercises with South Korea, and for a week, the crew of the Victor-class submarine armed with 18 nuclear weapons had been tailing the task force’s largest ship.
However, the Soviets suddenly lost track of the Americans on March 21, 1984, and Captain Alexander Evseenko ordered his crew to raise the submarine to a depth of 32.8 feet to try and locate the task force.
Then, as the impatient captain looked through his vessel's periscope, his limbs went flaccid and his face turned white. He immediately ordered the crew to submerge the submarine, but it was too late.
With the Navy Carrier Strike Group unknowingly heading towards them, the 1,800-ton American supercarrier approached the submarine at full throttle.
A crash between the two opposing nuclear-armed vessels was now imminent, with the global ramifications looming large over the crew’s shoulders…
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