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The terrible hours
the man behind the greatest submarine rescue in history
By Maas, Peter
- ISBN
- 978-0-06019-480-2
- Publisher
- New York : HarperCollins Publishers, c1999.
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on March 1, 2000
YA In 1939, the Navy's newest submarine, the USS Squalus, was test diving off the coast of New Hampshire when it plunged 243 feet beneath the Atlantic Ocean. Thirty-three crew members survived but there was no known way to rescue them. The admiral in charge of the Portsmouth Navy Base called in the one man who was involved in underwater rescue work. Naval officer Charles Momsen had set up a diving lab and created a large steel rescue chamber shaped like a bel...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
