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Description Diagram showing the salvage gear used to raise the submarine USS Squalus (SS-192) up from the sea bottom. Squalus sank during a test dive on 23 May 1939. For 50 days, divers worked to pass cables underneath the submarine and attach pontoons for buoyancy. On 13 July 1939, the stern was raised successfully, but when the men attempted to free the bow from the hard blue clay, the vessel began to rise far too quickly, slipping its cables. Ascending vertically, the submarine broke the surface, and 30 feet (10 m) of the bow reached into the air for not more than ten seconds before the vessel sank once again all the way to the bottom. After 20 more days of preparation, with a radically redesigned pontoon and cable arrangement, the next lift was successful, as were two further operations. Squalus was towed into Portsmouth, Rhode Island (USA), on 13 September, and decommissioned on 15 November. A total of 628 dives had been made in rescue and salvage operations. Renamed Sailfish on 9 February 1940, she was recommissioned on 15 May 1940.
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Source U.S. Navy All Hands magazine March 1959, p. 61.
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(Reusing this file)		 "All photographs published in ALL HANDS are official Department of Defense photographs unless otherwise designated."

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