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Luckily for Oliver Naquin, the Navy already knew that: 1) sea water pouring through an open air-intake valve flooded the submarine's rear compartments, and 2) signal lights indicated that this valve was properly closed when the Squalus' last dive began...
Should Lieut. Naquin and his fellow officers have known that something was wrong in time to halt the dive...
...Undersea, battery-driven motors propel a submarine, stored air supplies the crew.) A Board of Inquiry thereafter recommended steps to find out whether an automatic, interlocking control could be developed so that when air valves were open, the ballast tanks which weight a submarine with water and make it dive could not be filled...
...another thing, The Streets of Paris gets good and wacky, as anything must in which those Hellzapoppinjays, Olsen & Johnson, have a hand. Screwiest bit: Bobby Clark waltzing with a stately blonde in an Apache dive, supremely oblivious of the guns that pop, the knives that whiz, the bodies that hurtle all around them...
...Ministry of the Navy belatedly informed the families of the crew and the world: "The submarine Phénix has been missing for 36 hours; all hope is lost." For the third time within a month a big modern submarine of a democratic navy had made a routine dive and somehow settled to the bottom. The U. S. S. Squalus lost 26 men, the British submarine Thetis, 99. The Phénix'?, toll...