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...first effort to reach Sea-Link was made by Navy "hard hat" divers lowered on a platform from the submarine rescue vessel Tringa. The divers got close enough to see that the sub was entangled in "one big junkyard down there." In a second try, encouraged by radioed shouts from Sea-Link ("Move south, move south!"), one got within ten feet of the sub. "Keep coming, keep coming!" Sea-Link implored, but he could not penetrate the debris...
...partially disabled, and what little power it could generate had to be used to charge the submarine's ebbing batteries. Last week, 16 days after her departure from Belfast, Harder finally came into New London, trailing ignominiously at the end of a towline from the submarine rescue ship Tringa...
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