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The US Navy's Rock-Site Concept A US Navy document from 1966 forthrightly discusses the con- struction of major military installations below the sea floor, in the middle of the ocean (illustration 2). Quoting from the title page:* tigations and utilization of knowledge and capabilities developed by other agencies involved in oceanography, is to provide methodology essential to planning for and construction of unique military facilities in marine envi- ronments. ABSTRACT. Large undersea installations with a shirt- sleeve environment have existed under the continental shelves for many decades. The technology now exists, using off-the-shelf petroleum, mining, submarine, and nuclear equipment, to establish permanent manned installations within the sea floor that do not have any air umbilical or other connection with the land or water sur- face, yet maintain a normal one-atmosphere environment within... This is an interesting choice of words: "construction of unique military facilities in marine environments". Lloyd A. Duscha, for- mer Deputy Director of Engineering and Construction for the US Army Corps of Engineers in Washington, DC, said in a public speech:* There are other projects of similar scope [to the NORAD base], which | cannot identify, but which included multi- ple chambers up to 50 feet wide and 100 feet high using the same excava- tion procedures [as] for the NORAD facility. ple Chiailvers up lo OU Ieel wide ald 100 feet high using the same excava- The text of the report elaborates what is tion procedures [as] for the NORAD meant by the Rock-Site Concept:* facility. ..a Rock-Site installation consists of a Mr Duscha then referred to the "critical room or series of rooms, excavated and unusual nature of these projects". Might fain the bedrock beneath ihe sea these large, secret, "critical and unusual" pro- loor, using the in situ bedrock as the jects be the "unique military facilities in . Large undersea construction material. marine environments" that the US Army installations with Corps of Engineers 1967 report refers to? . Note what is being said here. The instal- Might both be referring to huge. deeply a shirt-sleeve lation is carved out of the native bedrock pune undersea pases? I think that is very environment have beneath re floor of the ocean itself. And possible. The report continues wit! . the installation is composed of one or more Task Number -07-001:* existed under the "rooms". Now, keep in mind that a "room" to a hard-rock miner or underground construction engineer is not necessarily the same thing as a "room" in an ordi- nary house. At the beginning of the book I mentioned the dimensions of an underground power plant in the Himalayan Mountains of Bhutan that was hundreds of feet long and more than 100 feet high. Reflect on Lloyd Duscha's remarks, where he refers to multiple underground chambers more than 50 feet wide and 100 feet high. In fact, my research suggests that it would continental shelves for many decades. Structural Systems for Underwater Construction Develop concepts for construct- ing underwater storage and transportation facilities for ammunition and other haz- ardous materials. (US Navy document, 1966) Remember, this is the US Army talk- ing about underwater construction, not the US Navy. We may have to rethin! preconceived notions about which agencies do what. In the black-budget be within the state of the art in the world of the Secret Team and the underground construction industry to Invisible Government, the tidy agency boundaries that we are make mammoth underground chambers, in the middle of the accustomed to thinking about may not be very relevant at all. ocean, hundreds of feet below the sea floor, that would have no Finally, there is Task Number -07-002: visible connection to either the land or the surface of the ocean. Because I realise this assertion may well be controversial for Coastal Exploration the uninitiated, I am going to quote at length from the US Navy's Develop techniques for rapid evaluation of coastal and Rock-Site Concept report. As you read what follows, keep in inland bottom conditions for construction purposes. mind that already in the 1960s the technology existed to construct facilities beneath the ocean floor that could accommodate full- Here the Army alludes to evaluation of the continental shelf sized submarines, with locks that would permit their crews to (the ocean bottom just off the coastline) and inland bottom areas enter and exit, well below the surface of the sea. Over the last 35 for underwater construction. Presumably those inland bottom years, the technology to carry out subterranean and submarine areas would include (but not be limited to) areas such as Puget construction has only become more sophisticated and powerful. Sound in Washington state, Chesapeake Bay in the mid-Atlantic Truth may indeed be stranger than fiction. I am increasingly region, and the Great Lakes in the upper Midwest. It is my edu- inclined to think that such facilities just may have been built, and cated guess that any or all of these areas could be locations for just may be in secret use. What follows is a little lengthy and a clandestine, underwater facilities, deep beneath their bottoms. Is little technical, but is well worth the reading:” tha 1 atha ao tha Ta avi £ ...a Rock-Site installation consists of a room or series of rooms, excavated within the bedrock beneath the sea floor, using the in situ bedrock as the construction material. Large undersea installations with a shirt-sleeve Coastal Exploration Develop techniques for rapid evaluation of coastal and inland bottom conditions for construction purposes. Here the Army alludes to evaluation of the continental shelf (the ocean bottom just off the coastline) and inland bottom areas for underwater construction. Presumably those inland bottom areas would include (but not be limited to) areas such as Puget Sound in Washington state, Chesapeake Bay in the mid-Atlantic region, and the Great Lakes in the upper Midwest. It is my edu- cated guess that any or all of these areas could be locations for clandestine, underwater facilities, deep beneath their bottoms. Is there any other evidence indicating the possible existence of secret, undersea bases, deep below the sea floor? In point of fact, there is. Land-based undersea installations are not only practical today but are not overly expensive. The depth of shaft NEXUS = 31 environment have existed under the continental shelves for many decades. (US Navy document, 1966) AUGUST —- SEPTEMBER 2001 www.nexusmagazine.com