Word: squalus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...upon to rescue deep-sixed submariners is ancient and inadequate: the McCann rescue chamber, an "undersea elevator" that can remove only eight men at a time from subs in 850 ft. of water or less. Devised in the 1920s, it was last used in an actual undersea rescue when Squalus went down off Portsmouth, N.H., in 1939.* Development of a "Deep-Submergence Rescue Vehicle," begun in 1965 in the wake of the Thresher tragedy two years earlier, has been delayed until late 1970 by technical and budgetary problems. When it is completed, the Navy will have two vehicles that...
...Located by a yellow telephone buoy at a depth of 240 ft., Squalus ultimately relinquished 33 of her crewmen to safety; 26 others had been drowned in a flooded aftercompartment...
Thresher's loss was the worst U.S. submarine disaster in history, and dramatized the terrifying dangers that submarines face as no other since the U.S.S. Squalus went down in 1939.* On Friday morning last week, Portsmouth marines marched to the Portsmouth flag mast. Drums and bugles sounded a muted dirge as the flag ran to the top, then fluttered down slowly to half-staff. The bustling base became silent. Military men snapped to rigid salutes; civilian workers stood with heads bowed, and a burly mechanic cupped his safety helmet over his heart and cried like a child...
...Squalus, fresh from the Portsmouth shipyard, plunged 240 ft. to the bottom off the New Hampshire coast when water suddenly filled a compartment. Twenty-six men died in the flooded section, but others remained alive behind a watertight hatch. They sent a smoke bomb and a yellow buoy carrying a telephone to the surface. Four hours later another sub found the buoy, talked by phone with those trapped below. Twenty-four hours after the Squalus sank, a Navy diver reached her deck and directed a 10-ton diving bell in four dramatic descents that saved...