The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-06-21
Missing Submarine
 Is Believed Located
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was made.
 Capt. J. J. Brown, directing opera tions from tho Falcon, said there was no assurance that the grape nels had hooked the missing ship.
 Divers In Danger
 He said too, that In the 67.fathom water the divers faced obstacles far more dangerous and difficult than those encountered when 9 of the Squalus' Seaman crew were rescued from 40 fathoms by use of the Me- Cam rescue chamber in what at that time was considered almost . ifiir- Rele.
 Today's divers encountered temp. eratures of 90 degrees--So cold that there was danger they would perish If their breath congealod air valves in tho diving helmets. They used lb per cent he!ium mixed with oxygen A two.day supply of helium was on hand and additional quantities were enroute from the naval air station at Lakehurst, N. J.
 Normally 1t would take . diver half an hour to mako the 402-foot descent from A diving raft floating near the Falcon. Then, after c few minutes search, he would Do inch. cd back to the surface. The trip Up would require two and . half hours A faster ascent would expose the diver to the danger of "bends." Then he would have to spend from four to six hours in c decompresSion chani- Der aboard the salvage ship.
 Escape Matches Valueiess
 The O.0, reconditioned recently aS q training ship, was described vari- ously as having one and two escape matches. However, these would prove yalueless at the depth she sank, ac. eordlng to Lieutenant Commander Edmund Jewell.
 If the men tried to come out In Momgen lungs they would Do dead on reaching the surface,' he said. "The tremendous water pressure would cause their bodies to burst"
 Jewell said the rescue chamber could be used, but indicated that It might never Do brought into play. Asked if he thought all were lost, he hcsltated, bowed his head and then said.
 "Yes, 1 do."
 "If salvage attempts were made" he said, they would Do the deepest on record The oil slick and cork was found at a spot where the wa. ter Is 402 feet deep, but the sub. marine may not be in that exact spot. If sch Is only Q few hun- dred feet further out to sea, she will be in 480 feet of water"
 Rear Admiral John D, Vain. wright said final Judgment as to the fate of the ship and her crew should be suspended until full reports were available. He said operations would be maintained on & 24-hour basis until 1t was determined whether the crew were dead or alive.
 Sc0ifS At Sabotage
 Scoffing at the possibility of Sabo- tage he expressed belief that the O-0 met with some kind of an ac. eident." He did not believe that the ship had collided with another veS- sel.
 If she is 400 feet deep" Vain wright said, T don't know what we could do with her if we found her.
 "The question Is how long can the men exist. If all were normal - 24 hours. But under the circumstances, l don't know. The oil indicates some thing has happened. The bubbles in- dicate something has been punc- tured."
 Thus far no messages have been intercepted by the sensitive instru- ments aboard the rescue vessels. Though the O-9 was not equipped with Q surface buoy, she did have an oscillator--an instrument by which code messages could be tapped out to surface vessels.
 A Navy spokesman said 1t was impossible for the O-9 to have sent any type of message without 1t hav- ing been heard by one of the ships that was standing by when the test dive took place.
 Hull Must Re Crushed
 Jewell said that pieces of floating cork and deck grating found on the surface make 1t certain the hull was crushed"
 What sections of the hull," he said, 1t was impossible to tell. II 1t were only part of the hull, the men might be alive in the remain der of the ship. Bubbles floating to the surface indicate there still is air within the hull"
 The trio of "0-suhs," 90 obsolete that navy authorities here had dif- flculty recalling construction and ] equipment details, had come to thii