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...Bottom. Promptly at 7:30 one clear, crisp morning last week the U. S. submarine Squalus, (rhymes with jail us), Lieutenant Oliver F. Naquin commanding, put out from the Navy yard at Portsmouth, N. H., to practice fast dives. Besides her commander she carried four other officers, three civilian observers and 51 enlisted men. None of the 59 was unusually nervous, although the Squalus had not passed the testing stage and only two weeks before had been stranded under water for an hour with a fouled blowout valve. Newest and one of the finest of the Navy's submarines...
...five miles off the tiny Isles of Shoals, the Squalus, driving ahead on her Diesel engines, prepared to dive. Machinist's Mate Alfred G. Prien was at the controls...
...ballast tank vents, water rushed in to take its place. On the control board-called "the Christmas tree" because of its numerous red and green lights-lights flashed, showing Prien that the air induction valves, which carried air to the engine rooms, were closed and watertight. Down planed the Squalus. As the depth gauge showed nearly 50 ft., she began to level...
Through the telephone a voice barked into Lieutenant Naquin's ear that water was pouring into the engine room. The lights, all green, indicated that the air valves were shut. They were not all shut. Under the weight of water rushing in astern, the Squalus tilted bow up at a 45-degree angle, hesitated, shivered, slowly sank stern-first toward the bottom. The lights went...
Keppler stressed the fact that the "Squalus" rescue crew had been unusually fortunate in finding the submarine located with a list of only 11 degrees on a flat, sandy bottom...