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Description Submarine rescue chambers were used by the U.S. Navy for over fifty years as a means of saving crews of submarines stranded on the ocean floor. Inside the chambers are two compartments; an upper compartment designed to hold two operators and eight passengers and a lower compartment which mates with the stranded submarine to allow survivors to pass from the submarine?s escape hatch into the rescue chamber. The first and only operational use of a submarine rescue chamber occurred in 1939 when the USS Squalus (SS-192) accidently flooded her compartment during a test dive. Working against time and extreme depth, divers from the submarine rescue vessel USS Falcon (ASR-2) were able to attach a downhaul cable from a rescue chamber to make several trips between the submarine and the surface until 33 survivors were bought to safety.
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Submarine Rescue Chamber (SRC-15) From USS Florikan (ASR-9)

Author Cliff from I now live in Arlington, VA (Outside Washington DC), USA
Camera location21° 22′ 07.56″ N, 157° 56′ 20.06″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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