Word: diversity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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"The best means of saving the men on a sunken submarine," he went on, "is to try to raise the boat in a hurry. This is usually impossible, and no method of removing men alive from a trapped vessel has yet proved satisfactory. My suggestion would be to have a...
Besides being an executive officer of Widener Library, the late Professor A. C. Coolidge '87 was throughout his connection with the University a liberal donor of numerous volumes of divers classification to its stacks.
Salvage work on the S-4 was continued by 18 expert divers under Rear Admiral Frank H. Brumby. Seventeen shapes, sodden with oil and sea water, were retrieved, including the corpse of Lieut. Commander Jones. Twenty more "diving days" were needed to raise the hulk.
Perhaps the remarks of Secretary Wilbur, and the impersonal attitude of the naval officers, were unfortunate at a time when the public was torturing itself with the details of the men's suffering. But it is hard for the civilian to understand the way the cold, indeed, but efficient way...
Other Devices ? electro-magnetic lifts, detachable chambers and keels, divers' suits for escape through torpedo tubes or conning tower?were all said by the Navy Department to have been studied, tested and found impracticable. The Navy Department's memorandum of last week on safety devices was prepared last year...