{"id":408575,"date":"2026-07-22T22:21:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T22:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/408575\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T22:21:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T22:21:08","slug":"the-submarine-uss-santa-fe-returns-to-san-diego-after-breaking-through-the-arctic-ice-cap-san-diego-union-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/408575\/","title":{"rendered":"The submarine USS Santa Fe returns to San Diego after breaking through the Arctic ice cap \u2013 San Diego Union-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"

The fast-attack submarine USS Santa Fe returned to its home base in San Diego Bay on Tuesday, ending a six-month deployment in which the boat vertically surfaced through the ice in the Arctic Circle.<\/p>\n

The highly dangerous maneuver occurred in March as part of an exercise to test the ability of submarines to operate beneath the ice. It was tied to a larger program, known as Operation Ice Camp Boarfish<\/a>, in which the Navy operates from a drifting ice floe in the Beaufort Sea.<\/p>\n

Santa Fe, a 360-foot boat that carries a crew of 140, is nearing the end of its service life. It was commissioned in 1994. But the Navy has yet to announce plans to decommissioning the vessel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The fast-attack submarine USS Santa Fe returned to its home base in San Diego Bay on Tuesday, ending…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":408576,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[7,23,1703,74,84,76,75,3055,1696],"class_list":["post-408575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-california","tag-local-news","tag-military","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-county","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-south-county","tag-top-stories-sdut"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=408575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/408576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}