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Old 12-20-11, 10:59 AM   #6
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Originally Posted by Aviv View Post

Second, I was reading the other day (bored recently) about how crews can escape from submarines. I learnt that those two small hatches at the back of the submarine (with one at almost 45 degrees) is part of the system which allows sailors to escape; the "escape trunk" (more information on Wikipedia). I wanted to know how successfull was that to allow people to escape and survive sunked submarines?
One of the most famous accounts of escaping a stricken submarine was the USS Tang.

A first hand account of sorts can be read here:
http://ss563.org/306/survivors.html
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