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Nantucket Neighborhoods Cliff — Nantucket Neighborhoods. Nantucket Neighborhoods Town — Nantucket Neighborhoods. Nantucket Neighborhoods Surfside — Nantucket Neighborhoods. Each shift, Cooper would walk by the enlisted man with the. Identifying characteristic frequencies was key to detecting and classifying targets.

After a while, Cooper could identify individual subs by the sound pattern they created. In the next room, radiomen encrypted the data and relayed it to the next station in Cape May, New Jersey, or to Washington, D. Electricians stood by to maintain the equipment. By the early s, undersea listening posts formed a semicircle from Barbados to Nova Scotia—a secret weapon that enabled U. Meanwhile, Miller, Moores and everyone else on the base—as well as everyone on Nantucket—were kept in the dark.

In , Tom Nevers Naval Facility was decommissioned. Erosion ate away a quarter mile of what was once the upper base; the T-building would have plunged down the bluff if it were still intact. The softball field is still there.

Nuclear submarines became too quiet to detect through sonar. Sound surveillance systems are now used to study hydrothermal vents, pinpoint underwater volcanic eruptions and listen to whales vocalizing.

In the s, because the underwater signals traveled through cables only up to miles long, sound surveillance stations such as Tom Nevers had to be located where the continental shelf is closest to land. Cooper, Moores and Miller ended up on Nantucket because of science and a sandbar.

They stayed because they fell in love—with women they met here, and with the island itself. His department is investigating reports of a man, or more than one man, breaking into three houses in the same Tom Nevers area.

Two occurred on Jonathan Way and one occurred on Sandsbury Road. For the case on Sandsbury, it did not appear that entry was made. Pittman said he believes the incidents are probably related. Only one incident was reported immediately and the other two were reported later on in the day after word had spread about similar crimes in the neighborhood. There were no other cases similar to these three incidents elsewhere on the island, he said.