[BenLurkin]

bttt

[mitch5501]

So that’s the stern jutting out of the water! Thank God the water wasn’t a few metres deeper.

[Equine1952]

1. Rule of submarines never submerge with hatchs open.

2. Rule. Surfaces meet or exceed submerges.

3. Rule Don’t eff up #1 or #2.

I was on auxiliary machinery 2 watch once and was asked if I was ready to surface. My answer “ I’m always ready to surface”

[Inyo-Mono]

Wow! I’ve read of this story before.

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

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[Dr. Franklin]

I don't know if this is misspelling of the concrete ship S.S. Atlantus, the wreck of which lies just offshore from Cape May,NJ:
S.S. Atlantus
They experimented with building concrete ships during WWI since steel was scarce, but none finished in time to serve in that conflict. S.S. Atlantus was in service from 1919-1920, so the time line would be correct to have been the ship to save the submarine crew. The ship Atlantus was to be scrapped and sunk to serve as a pier for the Cape May-Lewis Ferry, but broke from her mooring during a storm in 1926 and ran aground at the present location. During the 70's it got so cold the ocean froze near shore and people walked out to the wreck. Not much is left of the wreck that looks like a ship today, just a seaweed covered pile of concrete.

[dagunk]

Continental Shelf saved them. It goes out a ways and is relatively shallow.

Had a guy on the crew we got from a boomer (missile sub). We were talking about submerging and he mentioned that submerging when leaving from the east coast was done at some distance out. That was the continental shelf. Approx 200 feet(?) depth. Somebody who knows for sure holler.

Departing west coast the sub was submerged almost immediately after clearing the coast. No shelf - just deep water. Subduction zone between tectonic plates.