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Contacted in Southwest Harbor, Maine, by "American Students for Raising the Monitor," he estimated the cost of the operation at $250,000. Captain Ellsberg, the man who raised the Squalus, said that the Monitor could be raised by using external lifting pontoons, a method he pioneered...
Ellsberg used the pontoon method successfully in raising the U.S. submarines S-51, S-4, and the Squalus. Ellsberg's nephew, Daniel Ellsberg '52, said he would be glad to try to persuade the Captain to supervise the operation, if the necessary money were raised...
...Newsman Crockett scored his first big beat: in a small lobster boat he sailed 15 rough miles out in the Atlantic, to get the first details of the sinking of the submarine Squalus off Portsmouth...
Presently the O-8 and the O10 reappeared. The O-9 did not. That afternoon, the Navy announced that she was missing. Then, in the same waters where the Squalus vanished two years ago (saved: 33; lost: 26), another drama of succor unfolded. The salvage boat Falcon, with divers who had gone down to the Squalus at 240 feet, had labored there at the peril of their lives; other submarines, destroyers, tugs, airplanes, searchlights when night fell-all were there...
Tectyl 511, which makes a film .0003 inch thick, is the kind that elbows aside sea water, was used to flush the Squalus. It worked so well that the Navy uses it now for a great variety of corrosion-fighting jobs...