Word: snorkel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Concerning the Skate's 31-day submerged record [July 7]: the Skate has a snorkel for emergency use but, of course, did not use it during the 31-day period. When in use, a snorkel is continually taking in fresh air and exhausting either engine exhaust gas or stale air (it actually has two pipes enclosed in one large tube to make this possible). In our 31-day period the 95 men in the Skate were as completely divorced from the earth's atmosphere as though they had been in outer space. This was made possible...
Impressive as the performance of the Skate may be in remaining submerged for 31 days [June 9], this is not the record. In the summer of 1945 the German sub U-977, fitted with a snorkel, ran submerged for 66 days while escaping to Argentina from Norway. CHRISTOPHER CLAUSEN Los Altos, Calif...
...Skate did not have a snorkel -a fact which makes its record more impressive...
...last, he and his wife (Margaret Hamilton) could realize a great dream, "the one thing we both want most-a divorce." Instead, though, Lothario Lahr settled for a whirl at the posh Murmuring Sands Hotel and the charms of a predatory female who invites him skindiving. "You do snorkel?" she asked. "Oh, fluently," replied Lahr with outrageous, beady-eyed insouciance, and in a trice he has filled out a preposterous, knee-length bathing suit. With a meddling, mixed-metaphored assist from Comedienne Doro Merande ("Don't jump the gun half-cooked"), Lahr got away with bushels of bad jokes...
ATOMIC SUBMARINE tanker is on the drawing boards of Japan's Mitsubishi Heavy-Industries Ltd. Nuclear-powered undersea craft will do 22 knots, carry 30,000 tons of oil, measure 540 ft. by 69 ft., to dwarf the first U.S. atom sub Nautilus. Snorkel craft will be able to stay submerged for a month straight, safe from turbulent storms. Cost: about twice as much as conventional tanker of same size...