Word: thresher
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...time from subs in 850 ft. of water or less. Devised in the 1920s, it was last used in an actual undersea rescue when Squalus went down off Portsmouth, N.H., in 1939.* Development of a "Deep-Submergence Rescue Vehicle," begun in 1965 in the wake of the Thresher tragedy two years earlier, has been delayed until late 1970 by technical and budgetary problems. When it is completed, the Navy will have two vehicles that can extricate 24 submariners at a time at depths of up to 3,500 ft. Four more DSRVs will be added later, to be flown...
Though the search-by as many as 55 ships and 35 aircraft-continued at a diminished level, it seemed most likely that Scorpion had gone to the bottom in the depths beyond the reach of sonar, divers or the McCann chamber. Unlike the loss of Thresher with 129 men aboard, Scorpion's demise appeared to have nothing to do with inadequate shipyard maintenance: she ostensibly got a "Four 0"-i.e., excellent -rating in an overhaul only last summer, and had performed superbly in the Mediterranean. Had she not remained incommunicado in transit but been required to signal her position...
...hygiene, plant crops and harvest friendship, build schools and instruct Vietnamese in carpentry or masonry in the process. Often they have to overcome U.S. red tape and age-old Vietnamese traditions along the way. One I.V.S.er, 28-year-old Paul Lukitsch of Milwaukee, discovered a U.S. AID-provided wheat thresher that the Vietnamese, ignorant of its workings, had not even uncrated. After "liberating" the machine, Lukitsch modified it for rice harvesting in the Delta, and reduced the threshing time of 1,000 bundles of rice from two days to 2½ hours. "We now have an unbelievable list of farmers...
...they're on patrol in Viet Nam, and their rifle goes boom and injures them because it's defective, they can sue the guy that manufactured it." To hear Belli tell it, he could collect damages for the families of the men lost when the nuclear submarine Thresher went down...
...saying that they are hungry for human meat). Smallest is the porbeagle, a toothy rascal that inhabits the North Atlantic and grows to a mere 600 Ibs. There is the slender blue shark, a handsome indigo in color and up to 800 Ibs. of pure ferocity; the weird-looking thresher, which batters its prey senseless with an enormous scythelike tail and comes in an economy-size 1,000-lb. package; and the voracious tiger shark, which reportedly tops two tons-though the biggest ever caught on rod and reel weighed...