WE HAVE RUN AGROUND, CAPTAIN RANEY The Arkansas and Colorado Rivers originate only a few miles apart in the Rocky Mountains near Leadville, Colorado. They are, however, on opposite sides of the Continental Divide. Snowmelt in the Arkansas River drainage bounds merrily along until it flows into the Mississippi River and empties into the Gulf of Mexico. Snowmelt that finds its way into the Colorado River drainage maunders off jauntily through the Grand Canyon and finally empties into the Gulf of California. Sometimes vagaries of the wind are all that determine which snowflakes go where. Other vagaries were at work to determine the final destination of the USS Batfish. The Batfish, SS310, is a Bilao class submarine that was commissioned in August of 1943 and saw action in the Pacific during WWII. It is best known
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