The first successful rescue of U.S. submariners came in 1939, after the USS Squalus sank during a test dive off the New England coast. The Navy extracted 33 survivors (26 people died) by using the brand-new McCann Rescue Chamber, a steel capsule that seals onto a sub’s escape hatch.
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