U.S. Navy Office of Naval Intelligence Worldwide Threat to Shipping (WTS) Report, 30 August - 27 September 2023

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Saturday Is Old Radio Day - Have Gun Will Travel "Eat Crow" (1958)

Friday Film: "SCAT - Submarine Classification & Tracking System (1960's)

An "interesting" idea from Ford. More on it here:

SCAT was a mechanical noisemaker affixed to large magnets which, when it attached to the hull of a moving submarine, generated noise that allowed the sub to be easily tracked. The SCAT was to be delivered using the already existing Hedgehog system. SCAT was the brainchild of inventor Frank Dobson, who also patented and developed a hovercraft and aircraft as well as children's toys. It's unclear exactly what the fate of the system was, but apparently it was never deployed, most likely because the odds of having the device successfully attach to the hull of a moving submarine at sea were very low.

U.S. Navy Office of Naval Intelligence Worldwide Threat to Shipping (WTS) Report, 23 August - 20 September 2023

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Saturday Is Old Radio Day: "Menace in Wax" Suspense (1942)

Friday Films: "Ejection Decision" (USAF) and "Bailing Out" (USN)

Saturday Is Old Radio Day: Adventures of Philip Marlowe "Red WInd" (1947)

U.S. Navy Office of Naval Intelligence Worldwide Threat to Shipping (WTS) Report, 16 August - 13 September 2023

Interesting section: 1. (U) (LATE REPORTING) YEMEN: On 25 August, an entity impersonating the United Nations Verification and Inspection Mechanism for Yemen (UNVIM) was directing merchant vessels in the vicinity of Aden Anchorage, near position 12:48N – 045:15E, to divert to Hodeidah Port in the southern Red Sea. (UKMTO; Clearwater Dynamics)

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Friday Films: "Boilers and Their Operation" and "Deaerating Feed Tanks" (both 1955)

Getting ready to go to sea in the days before gas turbines in ships meant the snipes had to get up really early to light off the boilers to have enough steam for propelling the ship. Boiler Techs did not work in quiet air-conditioned spaces. But they often worked miracles.

U.S. Navy Office of Naval Intelligence Worldwide Threat to Shipping (WTS) Report, 9 August - 6 September 2023

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Saturday Is Old Radio Day - Hallmark Playhouse "Girls Are Like Boats"(1948)

Friday Film- "Oceanography: Mining Minerals in the Ocean" - Hughes Glomar Explorer

How good was the cover story for the Hughes Glomar Explorer? Appears about 8:20 in.

See the CIA article The Exposing of Project AZORIAN

Or read the book Project Azorian: The CIA and the Raising of the K-129

U.S. Navy Office of Naval Intelligence Worldwide Threat to Shipping (WTS) Report, 2 - 30 August 2023

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Saturday IS Old Radio Day - "The Wandering Corpse" from The Thin Man (1943)

Friday Film: US Navy Oceanographic Prediction Systems

U.S. Navy Office of Naval Intelligence Worldwide Threat to Shipping (WTS) Report, 26 July - 23 August 2023

Interesting starter, calling out China (which deserves it, by the way):

A. (U) U.S. Maritime Advisory 2023-009-Woldwide-Foreign Adversarial Technological, Physical, and Cyber Influence Issued on 23 August 2023. This advisory seeks to alert maritime stakeholders of potential vulnerabilities to maritime port equipment, networks, operating systems, software, and infrastructure. Foreign companies manufacture, install, and maintain port equipment that poses vulnerabilities to global maritime infrastructure information technology and operational technology systems. This advisory references U.S. Government documents published over the past few years, illuminating the risks associated with integrating and utilizing the People’s Republic of China’s (PRC’s) state-supported National Public Information Platform for Transportation and Logistics (LOGINK), Nuctech scanners, and automated port cranes worldwide.

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Saturday Is Old Radio Day (on Sunday): Abbot and Costello "Football Game" (1940)

Friday Film: "Epidemic's Children"

U.S. Navy Office of Naval Intelligence Worldwide Threat to Shipping (WTS) Report, 19 July - 16 August 2023

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Saturday Is Old Radio Day: "The Bullet" CBS Mystery Theater (1974)