Word: grapnels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...except for some further gestures of rescue. Diver George Crocker slid down a grapnel line to 370 feet, found that his special mixture of helium and oxygen (to keep nitrogen out of the blood stream, thus forestall bends) was failing him. Later, two divers did reach the bottom, in the subterranean dark and pressure could see nothing, do nothing. On the third day, the Chief of Naval Operations (Admiral Stark) in Washington announced: "The decision must be to accept the situation as loss of naval personnel at sea, who can best be honored as men still at their station...
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