Forum:Rapture will probably be found in the 1970s

just throwing this out for you folks, this is a theory i have about the future or Rapture based on events of the Cold War. basically i'm suggesting that Rapture will be discovered by either NATO or the USSR in the early-mid 1970s. the basis of this theory is down to the submarine warfare that was occuring around this time. you all probably remember that in  the first Bioshock game the bad ending had Splicers attack and potentially seize an American nuclear submarine, thing is during this period that wouldn't have been the only submarine operating in the area. Rapture's location at 63° 2' N, 29° 55' W sits slap bang in the middle of one of the busiest locations for submarine activity during the Cold War. the chances of a NATO or Soviet submarine stubmling across rapture purely by accident is very high. there's also the SOSUS system of seabed sensors NATO deployed in the early 1960s in the GIUK Gap, these were highly sensetive passive SONAR arrays that could even pick up the sound of aircraft overhead. the SOSUS system would most likely pick up the sheer amount of sound Rapture generated (especially during the first and second Bioshock games where Jack and Subject Delta cause a lot of explosions and other incredibly loud noises. this would naturally attract the attention of NATO who'd be wondering "why are our sensors picking up these odd noises in this particular area of the ocean" and being suspicous of the possiblilty of it being generated by the Soviets they would go and have a poke aorund. the USSR would most likely find Rapture while doing seabed surveys. during the Cold War the Soviet Navy were constantly creating maps of the North Atlantic's seabed to assist their submarines with slipping past NATO ASW patrols and getitng as close to North America as possible, it's very likely that they would stumble across Rapture while doing one of thier surveys. basically i'm saying that it's highly unlikely that Rapture would remain undiscovered for long, if it did then it would be down to a huge amount of luck and sheer flukes.86.140.93.116 12:20, February 11, 2019 (UTC)