On the Bottom

The man who led the salvage efforts to raise a sunken US Navy submarine recounts the mission in a tale “that will surely rank among the epics of the sea” ( The Philadelphia Inquirer ). The sinking of the submarine S-51 was one of the greatest tragedies in American naval history. Due to a miscommunication and subsequent collision between the sub and a passing steamship on a September night, the S-51 , including thirty-three of its crew of thirty-six, sank to the ocean depths. The tragedy of the S