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Squalus Disaster*
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Jack Knell. — This is Jack Knell speaking to you through shortwave transmitter WAAU operating on 2,190 kilocycles. We are at the present time in a small boat, riding at anchor at a spot approximately 50 yards from the scene of rescue operations of the sunken submarine Squalus, 16 miles due north from the Portsmouth Navy Yard. We have seen and are seeing one of the most thrilling sights of our lives today. We are seeing history in the making.
About I hour ago, that huge lo-ton diving bell disappeared from view as it sank to the bottom of the sea. We spent anxious minutes awaiting its return to the surface, and just a few moments ago, before we came on the air, that immense bell broke the strrface of the water. Its huge, pear-shaped bulk is now bobbing around in the water close to the side of the rescue ship. Falcon. The men aboard the Falcon are maneuvering the bell toward the stem of the ship by means of long poles. They seem to have it in the desired position now, and two men are astride the bell working on the hatch cover in an attempt to unscrew the bolts which keep the cover tightly closed against the sea and the tremendous pressure down there, 250 feet below the siirface.
One of the men is rising from his crouched position now, and the men aboard the rescue ship are leaning tensely over the side. ... I think they’re about to open the cover now . . . yes . . . the hatch cover of the diving bell is open! They’re reaching down inside the bell now . . . and. . . . There’s a man’s head. . . . They’re helping someone out of the bell now. . . . He’s climbing out of the bell under his own steam. . . . He’s stepping across the top of the bell and is boarding the Falcon. . . . The first survivor rescued from the simken submarine Squalus is out and safely aboard the rescue ship . . . and now here’s another man coming out of the bell. He’s being helped aboard the Falcon, although he seems to be able to make it without
* Copyright, 1939, by the Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc.
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