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Salvage work on the S-4 was continued by 18 expert divers under Rear Admiral Frank H. Brumby. Seventeen shapes, sodden with oil and sea water, were retrieved, including the corpse of Lieut. Commander Jones. Twenty more "diving days" were needed to raise the hulk.
"There was only one possible thing to do," he continued, "in order to save the men, and that was to raise the boat. Many suggestions were sent in to the rescue party, asking them to cut a hole in the side of the submarine, and give the men diving suits...
2) Why was the sunken S-4 "lost" during the rough weather that prevented diving, causing further delay until the wreck was found again and rebouyed?
Admiral Charles F. Hughes, Chief of Naval Operations, said tha transferring the airline to the S-4's "ears" had required special pipefitting which could not be . got ready before rough weather halted diving operations.
Inventor Sperry also described a compressed air barrage which might have made diving possible during the rough weather. "You take a pipe, perforate it with holes, let it down about 30 feet and then pump air through it at high pressure. The bubbles break up the waves over a limited...