Word: subs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sub crews also suffer from severe paranoia. Constantly aware of the Thresher and Scorpion disasters, they sometimes become obsessed by the danger of the crushing pressure of the sea around them; when that happens, submariners often prowl about the craft hunting for leaks in the 6-in.-thick steel hull. Crewmen also begin to worry inordinately about friends and relatives on shore. The Navy tries to soothe their fears with "familygrams"-radioed messages received when the sub surfaces. But that strategy sometimes backfires. One man learned halfway through a cruise that his six-year-old son had been seriously injured...
When the late-night munchies strike, Harvard students usually flock to the fast-food places around the Square. Besides Elsie's, Tommy's and others of that genre, a variety of pizza and sub shops cash in on the nocturnal hunger pangs...
...minisub caper remains his favorite. According to Lenzlinger, he rented a vacation retreat at Rust, on the Neusiedlersee's Austrian bank, and hid the sub in a boathouse. Under cover of twilight, the sub picked up, one by one, eight refugees assembled near Sopron, Hungary. "The only problem was Hungarian dog patrols," Lenzlinger recounted. "But the police dogs, all running loose, were male German shepherds. So on one trip we released a dachshund bitch in heat. The police dogs vanished and we took in the refugees. We even retrieved the poor dachshund with a supersonic whistle...
...board the submersible's mother ship, Sea Diver, the senior Link, 68 (long known for his World War II pilot training machines), realized that time was rapidly running out. The 9½-ton sub had only limited life-support chemicals. That was not the only problem. While the forward compartment's acrylic bubble acted as an insulator against the chilly (40° F.) sea, the rear compartment-where Link and Stover sat in light sports shirts and shorts-was quickly cooling off. The chill reduced the effectiveness of the chemical "scrubber," a sodium carbonate compound called Baralyme, which...
...time the third attempt was made to reach the sub-using a diving bell flown in from San Diego, Calif.-the men had been under water 26 hours. The bell also snagged in debris. One of the divers then tried to swim to the sub, but he could not make headway against the 2½-knot current. Hindered by debris and problems with its sonar gear, a little submersible called a Cubmarine had no better luck. Just as the situation seemed hopeless, the research ship A.B. Wood arrived, equipped with a remote-controlled underwater television camera. Using the camera...