Sub Adventures:
Pilot Info
Alfred Scott McLaren - Senior Pilot
 Captain
Alfred S. McLaren, USN (Ret.), Ph.D. is a Director of Sub Aviator
Systems, LLC and Senior Pilot of the SAS Aviator submersible.
He is also President Emeritus of The
Explorers Club, founded in 1904 to promote scientific exploration
and field research. A U. S. Naval Academy graduate and former
nuclear submarine officer, he made three Arctic expeditions on
nuclear attack submarines, that included the first submerged transit
of the Northwest Passage, a Baffin Bay cruise, and a North Pole
expedition that also completed the first survey under ice of the
entire Siberian Continental Shelf (5,000 km).
 He
commanded USS
Queenfish (SSN-651) during the latter expedition and for
a total of four years. He was subsequently honored with the Societe
de Geographic Paris’ Silver Medal for Polar Exploration and
La Medaille de La Ville De Paris (Echelon Argent). A veteran of
more than 20 Cold War submarine operations, his awards, as a Cold
War submarine captain, include the Distinguished Service Medal,
the nation's highest peacetime award; two Legions of Merit and
four Navy Unit Citations.
Currently a deep sea explorer and scientist, Captain
McLaren completed lengthy dives using the Russian deep-diving
MIR submersibles to: R.M.S. Titanic in 1999 and
2003, the Rainbow Hydrothermal Vents along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge
in 1999, and during June 2001; one of the first manned dives to
the wreck of the German battleship Bismarck at a depth
of 4,750 meters beneath the sea. He returned to Bismarck
in early August 2002 to make a second dive and participate in
a comprehensive high definition (HD) filming of the wreck site.
He received The Explorers Club's Lowell Thomas Medal for Ocean
Exploration in 2000. He's the author of, Unknown
Waters: A First-Hand Account of the Historic Under-ice Survey
of the Siberian Continental Shelf by USS Queenfish
"Scientist
at Work -- Alfred McLaren; Explorer of Arctic Depths Plans Another
Trip North", by William J. Broad (Published: October
29, 2002, New York Times)
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