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| To Swim Like a Fish: Touring a Submarine | |
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| A Tour Before Diving | |
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| Sleek, Black, and Dangerous in the Water | |
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| Down Ladder--Entering Feet First | |
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| The Reactor Is Critical | |
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| Visiting the Torpedo Room | |
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| Sounding Out the Sonar and Control Rooms | |
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| Meeting the (Annoyingly Youthful) Captain | |
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| This Mission Is Classified | |
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| A Steamy Time in the Engineroom | |
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| The Scream of the Turbine Generator | |
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| A Sub's Transmission: The Reduction Gear | |
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| Finishing the Tour | |
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| Meandering to Maneuvering | |
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| Moving Forward | |
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| View from the Bridge | |
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| Getting Underway | |
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| Taking Her Out | |
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| Flankin' It | |
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| Rig for Dive | |
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| Take Her Down | |
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| I Have the Bubble | |
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| To Test Depth | |
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| Buy Your Own Submarine | |
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| Keep Water Out of the People Tank | |
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| High Yield Strength and Toughness | |
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| Why They Are All Shaped Like Cigars | |
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| Withstanding the Pressure of the Ocean's Depths | |
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| All That Water Is Heavy | |
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| The Deeper You Go | |
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| The Legend of a Sub, Test Depth, and Duct Tape | |
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| The Pressure Hull | |
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| Chicken Switches | |
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| The Ballast Tanks | |
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| Trimming the Ship | |
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| Hard Tanks and Others | |
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| Uses of the Hovering System | |
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| Emergency Blow: In Case of Flooding | |
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| The Sail, a.k.a. the Conning Tower | |
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| The Periscopes | |
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| Radar and Radio Masts | |
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| Origin of the Snorkel | |
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| Sternplanes and Bowplanes | |
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| On the Bridge | |
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| Emergencies: Part One | |
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| What Could Possibly Happen? | |
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| You Find a Leak; Flooding Finds You | |
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| How to Conduct an Emergency Main Ballast Tank Blow (EMBT Blow) | |
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| Tragedy of the Greeneville | |
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| Fire Aboard Ship | |
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| Dealing with Smoke | |
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| Emergencies: Part Two | |
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| Nuclear Reactor Accident | |
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| Other Types of Nuclear Accidents | |
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| Russian Accidents | |
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| Protecting a Nuclear Reactor | |
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| Steam Leak | |
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| Weapon Warhead/Weapon Fuel Accident | |
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| Tragedy of the Kursk | |
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| Control Emergency ("Jam Dive") | |
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| Collision at Sea (Emergency Deep) | |
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| Flooding: Loss of the Thresher | |
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| Attempting to Blow | |
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| Garbled Voices | |
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| Procedure Flaws That Doomed the Thresher | |
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| Safety Changes Made | |
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| U.S. Submarine Force Inside Story of the Thresher | |
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| Lessons Learned | |
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| The Atomic Age | |
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| Entering the Nuclear Age | |
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| Fermi Was First | |
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| Making Power | |
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| Albacore | |
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| To Move Swiftly Through the Deep | |
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| USS Albacore, a Test Bed | |
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| Nautilus: Admiral Rickover's Baby | |
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| Rickover: Father of the Nuclear Navy | |
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| Prototype Reactor Built | |
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| The Admiral and I | |
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| The Hard Part: Building It to Last | |
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| Connecticut-Born | |
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| First Test: Threat of Meltdown | |
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| Psychodrama | |
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| Christened by Mamie | |
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| Early Problems | |
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| Considered an Ugly Duckling | |
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| Public Relations | |
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| Launch of the USS Skipjack, 1956 | |
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| Cruise Beneath the North Pole | |
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| Future of Nuke Vessels Assured | |
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| Nautilus Becomes Antiquated | |
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| How Nuclear Subs Work | |
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| Sensor Systems | |
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| Forget Everything You've Seen in the Movies | |
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| The Submariner's Edge: Passive Broadband Sonar | |
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| God Said, "Let There Be Narrowband" | |
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| The Narrowband Paradox | |
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| An Example | |
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| LOFAR | |
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| On the Rocks: Under-Ice Sonar | |
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| Electronic Countermeasures (ECM) | |
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| Infrared (IR): Detecting Heat Radiation | |
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| Visual: Up Periscope | |
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| Secure Fathometer | |
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| Future Sensors | |
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| Radio and Communications Suite | |
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| Weapons Systems | |
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| Control Room Layout | |
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| The Attack Center | |
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| Torpedoes | |
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| Cruise Missiles | |
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| Future Weapons | |
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| Firecontrol (or How I Put My Torpedo on the Target) | |
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| Navigation, or "Where the Hell Are We?" | |
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| Producing the Power | |
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| E = mc[superscript 2] | |
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| Nuclear Reactor | |
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| Problems of Corrsion | |
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| The Birth of Crud | |
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| The Moderator: Slowing the Neutrons | |
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| The Limiting Component | |
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| The Control Rod | |
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| It Keeps Going and Going and Going | |
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| End-of-Life Cores | |
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| Hot Standby | |
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| This Ain't Hoops: The Cold Wet Layup | |
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| Coolant Loops | |
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| Natural Circulation | |
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| Emergency Cooling | |
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| The Danger of Safety | |
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| The Coolant Loops | |
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| Staying Stable | |
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| Keeping Water from Boiling: the Pressurizer | |
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| Producing the Power II | |
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| Avoiding That Certain Glow: Shielding | |
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| Nuclear Instruments | |
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| Atmospheric Control--How to Breathe Underwater | |
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| Ship Control | |
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| Trim and Drain System | |
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| Hovering | |
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| Food and Cooking | |
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| Toilets | |
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| Blowing Sanitary | |
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| Trash Disposal | |
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| Operating a Nuclear Submarine | |
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| Rules Written in Blood | |
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| The Rigs | |
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| Starting a Nuclear Reactor | |
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| By-the-Book Normal Reactor Startup | |
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| XO Does Not Mean Hugs and Kisses | |
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| Prewatch Tour | |
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| Eng Is His Name | |
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| The Engineering Officer of the Watch | |
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| Entering Maneuvering | |
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| On Being Nominal | |
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| Estimated Critical Position | |
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| Phoning the Eng at Home | |
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| Reviewing the Procedure | |
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| Starting the Pumps | |
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| First Wiggle of the Startup Rate Needle | |
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| Heating Up the Core | |
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| Shifting the Electric Plant | |
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| Cracking Open the Throttles | |
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| Getting Underway | |
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| Checking the Bridge | |
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| Enter the Captain | |
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| Taking In All Lines | |
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| Keeping an Eye on Inbound Shipping | |
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| How to Tell Time Underwater | |
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| Taking Her Down | |
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| Coming to Periscope Depth | |
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| Doing the Math | |
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| Rising from the Well | |
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| Night Vision | |
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| Breaking and Clearing of the Scope | |
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| Reacting to an Emergency | |
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| Running Lights | |
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| How Could This Miserable Situation Happen? | |
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| Reacting to the Emergency | |
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| Multitasking | |
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| Reactor Scram, Snorkeling, and Fast Recovery Startup | |
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| Reactor Scram | |
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| "We Are Troubleshooting" | |
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| A Tricky Maneuver | |
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| "Start the Engineroom!" | |
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| Return of the AC | |
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| Sweet Talk from the Engineer | |
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| A Day in the Life of a Modern Submarine and Her Crew | |
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| At Sea | |
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| In Port | |
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| Staying Submerged for Months | |
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| Shipboard Organization | |
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| Submarine Careers | |
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| Subs at War | |
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| Nuclear "Fast Attack" | |
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| Backbone of the Nuke Fleet | |
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| Seawolf Class | |
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| Virginia Class | |
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| Submersibles | |
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| Deep Quest | |
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| Jacques Cousteau | |
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| Submarine Missile Systems | |
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| Fire Arrows | |
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| Types of Fuel | |
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| Newton's Law | |
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| SLBMs: Submarine-Launched Ballistic Missiles | |
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| Switching to a Solid Propellant | |
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| The Polaris Takes a Bow | |
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| The Poseidon Adventure | |
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| Trident | |
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| A Three-Stager | |
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| Deployment of Ballistic Missiles and PALs | |
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| Contingency 12 | |
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| Antiship Missiles | |
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| Tomahawk | |
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| The History of Submarines | |
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| Pre-Twentieth-Century Submarines | |
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| Halley's Diving Bell | |
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| First Attack Sub: The Turtle | |
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| The CSS H. L. Hunley | |
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| The CSS David: Semisubmersible Torpedo Launch | |
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| Robert Whitehead Invents the "Automobile Torpedo" | |
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| John P. Holland: Father of the Modern Submarine | |
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| First Electric Motor | |
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| Jules Verne's Version | |
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| Early Twentieth-Century Submarines | |
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| Simon Lake's Theory of Negative Buoyancy | |
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| Steam on the Surface, Electricity Below | |
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| The ABCs of British Subs | |
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| The Great War | |
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| So Much for Experts | |
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| U Stands for Unterseebooten | |
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| May 1915: Sinking of the Lusitania | |
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| Rendezvous with a U-Boat | |
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| One Torpedo Left | |
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| A Violent Explosion | |
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| How German U-boats Drew the United States into the War | |
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| Development of the Depth Charge | |
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| The War Comes to Us | |
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| Between the Wars | |
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| The United States Launches the S-boats, 1918 | |
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| Sonar | |
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| The Momsen Lung | |
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| 603,000 Tons and What Do You Get? | |
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| A Force to Be Reckoned With | |
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| French Take Lessons to Heart | |
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| A New Class of Ship | |
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| Cruiser Sub Specifications | |
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| How to Aim the Guns | |
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| A Varied Crew | |
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| Two Years in the Building | |
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| Many Problems | |
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| Largest Sub in the World | |
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| Surcouf in World War II | |
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| Operation Catapult | |
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| Finding a New Role | |
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| Refitting | |
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| Canal Duty | |
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| Rescue of the Squalus | |
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| Submarines of World War II | |
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| Japanese Midget Subs at Pearl Harbor | |
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| Midgets Deadly Down Under | |
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| U-boats in the Atlantic | |
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| Yank Subs Spread Thin | |
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| Planes Can't Stop Them | |
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| Sinking of the Laconia | |
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| "Is This a Self-Service Station?" | |
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| Subs Off the West Coast | |
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| The Longest Torpedo | |
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| Pestering the Island Hoppers | |
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| Gato, Balao, and Tench Classes | |
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| Suicide Subs | |
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| The End of the War | |
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| Appendixes | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |