Sir Hubert Wilkins - Australian Pioneer Polar Explorer, Cinematographer, Aviator, and Humanitarian Environmentalist (Oct 99

	LOCATION: Nautilus Submarine Museum Groton, Connecticut
Here the documentary crew interview Lt Cdr Ben Siclair in front of the world's first nuclear submarine which, like Wilkins' 1931 submarine, was called Nautilus.
Sir Hubert Wilkins' attempt to take a submarine beneath the North pole in 1931 reinforced his idea that submarines were the ideal way to travel in the Arctic Ocean. In the late 1930's he commenced plans to build a greater submarine in which to travel under the Arctic ice but World War Two put an end to this venture. Although Wilkins himself never had the opportunity to build his 2nd submarine, his ideas were followed up by the US Navy. With the growing Cold War between the USA and the USSR, the Arctic Ocean became strategically important and many people recognised the significance of submarines. The US Navy commenced its nuclear submarine program in the 1950s and as the only man ever to take a submarine under the ice, Sir Hubert Wilkins was consulted by them.