 A significant event in SOSUS history occurred on 6 July 1962 when NAVFAC Barbados made the first detection and identification of a Soviet nuclear submarine off the coast of Norway as it entered the Greenland-Iceland-United Kingdom (GIUK) gap.The facility's commanding officer was enlisted by the Commanding Officer, Barbados Regiment during the regiment's 75th anniversary dinner to recover the regiment's cannon that had been stolen in February 1956.The cannon had ended up in California and had been identified as the Barbados cannon in 1968.