Word: snorkeling
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...delivered the last of 5,000 six-wheeled, 2½-ton trucks designed to start, stop and run under water as easily as above it. Called the Eager Beaver, the vehicle is a big brother of the submersible jeep (TIME, May 15). Its engine breathes and exhausts through vertical snorkel tubes like a latest-type submarine. Its wiring system is completely covered with a silicone-rubber compound that repels water. Tight oil seals keep water out of all engine openings...
...Japanese navy and the Communist seizure of China, which opened a range of Pacific warm-water bases to the Red navy. But Russia's known navy is negligible except for its growing submarine fleet. It has about 300 submarines now, of which 30 to 40 are snorkel-equipped boats with enough speed and range to travel with a fleet...
...Conversion of eleven fleet submarines by installing "snorkel" breathers, of three more to "killer" subs, of another to mine-laying duty...
Twenty-one days after she submerged off Hong Kong, the new U.S. snorkel submarine Pickerel surfaced last week off Pearl Harbor, a quarter-way around the world. Her record: 5,200 undersea miles, with only the mouth of her snorkel breathing tube showing her trail on the surface. A few misgivings tempered the Navy's pride in its achievement: after all, Russia -equipped with a fleet of the latest snorkel subs of her own-could launch precisely the same kind of run from the coast of Communist China...
Four U.S. submarines-two streamlined snorkel types, Cochino and Tusk, and two older fleet types-left their base at New London, Conn, six weeks ago and headed quietly into the Atlantic. A brief Navy release announced that they were off on a training cruise to Ireland and return. They reached Londonderry all right, on July 29, and left for home-but by an exceedingly circuitous route...