Blissful ignorance? Submariners likely unaware of pandemic

French Marine officers wait atop Le Vigilant nuclear submarine at L'Ile Longue military base, near Brest, Brittany, France, in July 2007. — AP

LE PECQ, France: Of a world in coronavirus turmoil, they may know little or nothing.

Submariners stealthily cruising the ocean deeps, purposefully shielded from worldly worries to encourage undivided focus on their top-secret missions of nuclear deterrence, may be among the last pockets of people anywhere who are still blissfully unaware of how the pandemic is turning life upside down.