Submarine Rescue: The Race to Save Squalus | Trapped | 2

Against The Odds

Wondery

Cassie De Pecol, History, Society & Culture, Dolby, Mike Corey, Dolby Atmos, Atmos

4.7 • 7.2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2022

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

With the USS Squalus trapped at the bottom of the ocean, the Navy mounted an all-out rescue effort to save its crew before they ran out of breathable air. They called upon Charles “Swede” Momsen, an engineer who’d been pushing the Navy for years to develop new technology to rescue sunken submarines. While top brass considered Momsen a “rebel in uniform,” his ingenious invention — a rescue diving bell — soon became the Navy’s only hope.

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0:00.0	Hey, Prime members, you can listen to against the odds at free on Amazon music. Download the app today.
0:15.7	Electrations made Lloyd Manus peers through an open bulk head door inside the sinking USS Squailess submarine.
0:23.0	Beyond the door the sub is rapidly filling with sea water.
0:26.7	Manus has to pull the door shut to seal off the back half of the sub and contain the flooding.
0:32.8	But first he has to make sure he isn't trapping anyone and do mean them to drown.
0:39.4	He yells over the noise of the churning water and blaring alarms.
0:43.6	Anyone else in there? Anyone?
0:45.8	Manus has already helped a few sailors escape through the door. But this time there's no answer.
0:51.6	And he can't wait a second longer.
0:54.0	The water is already starting to splash through the doorway and into the control room where he's standing.
1:00.2	He wraps both hands around the door's grab handle and starts pulling it shut.
1:04.8	But the 300 pounds steel door won't budge.
1:08.2	The submarine has pitched backwards and is plummeting stern first to the ocean floor.
1:14.2	Manus must pull the huge weight of the door almost straight upward.
1:18.5	The other sailors in the control room can't help him. There's not enough room.
1:24.3	Manus is on his own.
1:26.6	He plants his feet and strings. His legs shake with effort.
1:32.0	Finally the door starts to move.
1:34.6	Hey!
1:35.6	An arm reaches through the door followed by a face. The sub's cook, William Isaacs.
1:41.5	He yanks the cook through the door and calls out one last time.
1:45.1	Anyone else there? I'm stealing the door. Anyone?
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