Word: waters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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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...
...endeavored to stop the inrush of water with our hands, but too late...
...muddy bottom water around the S-4 registered 34° Fahr...
...leaflet signed by famed Explorer William Beebe-were part of an artistic haul made by three painters who accompanied him to Haiti on the tenth expedition of the New York Zoological Society. "Never, I believe," wrote Explorer Beebe. "has any one country been so vividly presented in crayon, water color...