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...time the first diver went down on Sunday, December 18, and heard tappings from the torpedo room, why did he not connect up the air-hose then...
...least three hours is required to put a man in a diving suit and instruct him in the use of it. By this time enough water would have poured through the hole to fill the entire ship. Another suggestion was to have the men shoot themselves out of the torpedo tubes. One doesn't shoot himself out a tube, he merely crawls to the end, opens the door and then tries to get out. The pressure of the water at this depth would make it impossible for any of the entombed men to escape by this method...
Dragging Ashore. Old salts of Provincetown early suggested hitching the whole rescue fleet to the S-4 and dragging her to shallow water. Rear Admiral Frank Brumby, in charge of the rescuers, said that would tear the bottom out of the torpedo room and drown the six survivors at once...
...Water. Simon Lake of New Milford, Conn., submarine inventor, advised dumping oil on the waves to flatten them and permit divers to go down; also, telling the six survivors to keep their heads as high as possible in the torpedo room since carbon dioxide is heavier than...
Other Devices ? electro-magnetic lifts, detachable chambers and keels, divers' suits for escape through torpedo tubes or conning tower?were all said by the Navy Department to have been studied, tested and found impracticable. The Navy Department's memorandum of last week on safety devices was prepared last year to answer constructive criticism of the S-51 disaster off Block Island...