to San Francisco and Victoria British Columbia. While in Victoria a Canadian sailor got his hand caught between the Ballard and the mooring line which crushed his hand. Later in 1992, 'Cavalla' deployed on yet another EastPac patrol. This time to the warm waters of the Caribbean. With the cold war winding down they found a new mission working hand in hand with the US Coast Guard. During this patrol they apprehended two high level assets from a local Panamanian cartel. In 1993, 'Cavalla' deployed on a Western Pacific tour first stopping in Okinawa to pick up a three-star Marine Corps General (3rd MEF) to give him submarine diving and driving lessons by the lead helm. He commented on "the beads on our seats were like a taxicab in New York." Soon after we Okinawa, we crossed the International Dateline and the equator where all of the ship's crew became Golden Shellbacks and went through a particularly brutal ceremony. While eating the cherry out of King Neptunes belly button some weaker pollywogs got a special surprise from behind. When arriving in the Coral Sea we played war games 'sunk' the Australian carrier! The Cavalla was told no need to come shore for a liberty call. So, we continued the games with British submarines. Then to Guam where the Cavalla had minor upkeeps for two months during the summer. When many of the crew was at the local base club "Andy's Hut", there was an earthquake of the magnitude of 8.2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1993_Guam_earthquake . That quake split the pier in Apra Harbor where the Cavalla was moored. There was a watch set with an axe to cut the lines is the pier cracked to keep the Cavalla from rolling over and spill the acid in its battery bank. After being underwater for 56 days we got our first and only liberty port call of WestPac in Viti Levu of Fiji. For four Glorius day we drank Fiji Bitter and chased women. The Kava on the pier warmed our hands and our hearts. We were the first US nuclear submarine to ever enter their port. In late 1993, 'Cavalla' deployed to the Persian Gulf to conducting intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) operations. Frequent surfacing with snorkeling sending transmission at periscope depth. Exposing the crew to burn pits and other gulf war toxins. In 1995, 'Cavalla deployed to the Arctic Ocean for civilian scientific