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...their way back from the South Pole in March 1912, Captain Robert Falcon Scott and his party perished of starvation and cold. To his wife, Kathleen, Explorer Scott wrote: "I must write a little letter for the boy if time can be found, to be read when he grows up. The inherited vice from my side of the family is indolence-above all he must guard, and you must guard him, against that. I had to force myself into being strenuous...
...bell-shaped chamber which could be lowered from the surface and clamped to the hatch of a sunken ship. Last week, the best hope of the 33 men in the Squalus was Commander McCann's rescue bell, which was being made ready aboard the squat little rescue ship Falcon, steaming from New London...
Twenty-four hours after the Squalus went down the Navy had every available expert and rescue device on the scene. Calm weather was a godsend. At 10:15 a.m. Diver Martin Sibitzky went over the side of the Falcon and was lowered to. the deck of the Squalus. Under the terrible pressure in icy water, work was very slow. It took him 20 minutes to slide a shackle over a ring on the submarine's deck, clip a bolt through, tighten a nut. A cable was attached to the shackle. Before Sibitzky was back aboard the Falcon, nearly...
...just 29 hours after the Squalus had made its dive, the seven men were helped aboard the Falcon. At four o'clock, nine more men reached safety. Three hours later a third group of nine came up. Before nine o'clock the last living men aboard the Squalus, including Lieut. Naquin, were taken into the bell. They had got out just in time. Water in the batteries had begun to generate chlorine...
...gamekeeper's cottage near Stowe, where he is now writing his ninth book, on falconry. Best passages in The Sword in the Stone are the descriptions of sporting events: a boar hunt in which the master huntsman's dog is cruelly killed, the pursuit of an escaped falcon which is deep in the molt and not in yarak (proper condition for flying...