Photo by Petr Šmerkl, Wikipedia

Ukraine turns out to have some really interesting old sub bases left over from the Cold War. Actually now that I've done some wandering remotely it's looking like a place I'd actually like to visit on vacation someday. Traveling to the Ukraine looks like fun. I've been looking at photos today because while out in Dreaming or remote viewing (hard to tell the difference sometimes) last night I visited a harbor on the coast of Ukraine. I'm guessing it was Odessa because the general layout of what I saw matches that area. Standing on what seemed like the south shore of the bay I saw a long dock on the opposite side, parallel to the coast, and what looked like a submarine's conning tower alongside it. Submarines are cool and I always like checking them out, so I blinked over and had a look at it. It seemed old and the experience quickly dissolved from anything real into something dreamlike, a mixed up story about the sub's cook being hired to throw a birthday party for the daughter of somebody important. There were hard feelings when a civilian chef came aboard to take charge of the menu and create something with a cutting edge quality to it.

Remote viewing is often like that for me when I'm only partly interested, becoming a murky mix of reality and ordinary dreaming. Sometimes, though, I learn things that way that wouldn't have come across from just looking at the area. What you see often has a mystifying quality. This wasn't a busy harbor, for instance. It had the look of an important place, but lots of the structure there was old and in disrepair.

When I got around to working today I looked up a map of the Ukraine to see if there were any submarine bases on the coast. I've seen every submarine movie ever made at least four times, so I'm familiar with the lingo, and Odessa immediately became the obvious link. Once a main port for the Russian fleet, it's now more of a Cold War relic, with a huge underground submarine base that's abandoned and falling into ruin but still accessible through touristy tours. I'm not sure that any subs are parked in the area but from what I read online it's clear that they are parked someplace similar, mothballed and rusting as the result of a treaty between Russia and the U.S. Kind of sad, even though it's nice that we aren't obviously on the brink of war any longer.

The photos of the inside of the base look like scenes out of the game HalfLife. Concrete walkways along water filled sub channels, tunnels and hatches and old control rooms. Wish I could visit there physically.

Links to photos:

Russian Underground Sub Base
Sebastopol Underground