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Members of the Navy's undersea forces have their troubles also, when it comes to pronouncing the word "submariner". Do you pronounce it subMARiner or submaREENer? The Navy's submariners held a conference and settled the matter themselves. It was announced they would prefer to be called submarEENers (accent on the third syllable), and this pronunciation has been officially adopted. They objected to the pronunciation subMARiner on the grounds that it might connote a mariner who is below...
...Lloyd Bacon and his technical crew, working with what must be Hollywood's coldest, wettest cast, have handled their subject with skill and resourcefulness. They shot for seven weeks in the waters off Norfolk, Key West and the Virgin Islands, used such special equipment as a seven-ton undersea camera bell, a Navy-developed underwater camera, anti-shark chemicals to protect the actors. John Tucker Battle's script wisely keeps women out of the picture, serves as a dependable framework for the action scenes that make The Frogmen an arresting movie...
...feats of the submariners are recounted in Battle Submerged, by Rear Admiral Harley Cope and Captain Walter Karig, and Sink 'Em All, by Vice Admiral Charles A. Lockwood. Unfortunately, each book spills some of the drama in the detail, but they make clear that the undersea arm now has handsome traditions of its own. Examples: the stories of the Barb, the Tang and the Growler...
Twenty-one days after she submerged off Hong Kong, the new U.S. snorkel submarine Pickerel surfaced last week off Pearl Harbor, a quarter-way around the world. Her record: 5,200 undersea miles, with only the mouth of her snorkel breathing tube showing her trail on the surface. A few misgivings tempered the Navy's pride in its achievement: after all, Russia -equipped with a fleet of the latest snorkel subs of her own-could launch precisely the same kind of run from the coast of Communist China...
...pipe [the schnorkel] sticking out like a swimmer breathing through a straw," able to outrun pursuers and overtake fast convoys, and carrying long-range homing torpedoes which could be fired from a point beyond the earshot of sonar. The Nazis had been a few months too late with their undersea engine of destruction. But there it is now, says Bush, a heritage of German ingenuity: "one of our greatest potential enemies...