Cloak, dagger, and *BOOM!*

I'm sure we'll get to the bottom of all this...in about forty or fifty years when it's all declassified:

The drama apparently began in the early-morning hours of July 31, when an Inuit hunting party at an outpost camp at Borden Peninsula on northeastern Baffin Island was alerted to the sound of an explosion, followed by a cloud of black smoke.

An Inuit member of the Canadian Rangers, a military reservist unit stationed in the far north, reported the incident, and said a hunter at the camp saw several dead whales on shore when he went to investigate.

In a preliminary investigation, the Department of National Defence's Joint Task Force Northern headquarters determined there were no known vessels operating in the area, and it did not know of any activity that could have caused an explosion.

Apropos of nothing concrete whatsoever, Blind Man's Bluff is rather an eye-opener for anyone not in the submarine community. And while the book is about American subs, don't for a minute think the Americans are the only ones who play these games.

Listening posts? Please. And our own subs that can patrol under the ice, thank you very much.