{"product_id":"tudor-submariner-as02780","title":"Tudor Submariner","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eA man in a blue t-shirt sits in front of a bank of computer monitors. The tint of the screens matches his shirt and casts his lean, tanned face in an eerie glow. Though the hour is early—1:05 AM—he’s wide awake, deep in the belly of a ship.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003eFar below him, a remotely-controlled submersible roams the ocean floor. The images that the sub’s camera beams back up to him show a seafloor pockmarked with craters and littered with debris. Any thoughts the man might have had of sleep are pushed from his mind when the camera pans over a barnacle-encrusted mass.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003eHe sits up in his chair, eyes fixed on the screen. Gradually, the mass takes shape, identical to a boiler on a ship he had seen in a photo taken in 1911. To the man, the shape on the screen is unmistakable, and as the submersible follows a trail of debris, his heart quickens, until finally it reveals the hull of the ship herself. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003eThe man was Robert Ballard, and he had just discovered the wreck of the \u003ci\u003eTitanic\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003eAs monumental as that discovery was, it was serendipitous. Though finding the \u003ci\u003eTitanic\u003c\/i\u003e had been Ballard’s dream for years, the mission had another purpose entirely. Twenty years before, two U.S. Navy nuclear submarines—the USS \u003ci\u003eScorpion \u003c\/i\u003eand the USS \u003ci\u003eThresher\u003c\/i\u003e—sunk in the North Atlantic; concerned that the wrecks were leaking radioactive material, the Navy contracted Ballard to investigate them using his deep sea submersible, \u003ci\u003eArgo\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003eBallard saw the mission as an opportunity to fulfill his lifelong dream of locating the wreck of the doomed liner. He asked Ronald Thunman, then the deputy chief of naval operations for submarine warfare, if it would be possible to use Naval funding to find the ship. Thunman acquiesced, but only if the two submarines were located first.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003eSo Ballard set sail for the North Atlantic in search of the missing subs. At first he sailed on the French vessel \u003ci\u003eLe Suroît\u003c\/i\u003e, which used side scan sonar to locate the wrecks. However, the going was slow, scanning miles of seafloor in a method Ballard likened to “mowing the lawn.” But when he transferred to the \u003ci\u003eKnorr\u003c\/i\u003e he was able to follow debris trails directly to them, and used that same method to locate the \u003ci\u003eTitanic\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003eIn the 1980s, around the time of Ballard’s discovery, Tudor launched the Reference 79090 Submariner.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003eFollowing the Tudor “Snowflake,” the Reference 79090 would be the last generation of Tudor Sub. The Reference is marked by slight differences that distinguish it from its predecessors, like triangular indices, and the hands were changed once more to the “Mercedes” hands that adorned the first generation of Subs.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003eFeaturing all the hallmark elements of the icon that spawned it, this 79090 does its ancestors proud with a crisp case, sharp lugs, and matte black dial with lightly patinated luminescent elements. It’s one honest Sub that you can wear every day, in every environment, as you sail off in search of a discovery of your own.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tudor","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":12669641293911,"sku":null,"price":6100.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0809\/1255\/products\/Tudor_Submariner_Date_AS02780_329.jpg?v=1554495474","url":"https:\/\/www.analogshift.com\/products\/tudor-submariner-as02780","provider":"Analog:Shift","version":"1.0","type":"link"}