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Originally Posted by Shaffer4
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Originally Posted by _Seth_
I just discovered that in another thread some months ago... I didnt know that either before i suddely stumbled over it! 
You have to be at the surface to do that, btw. (Duhhh...Like it was possible to do it under water...:p) |
Thats why we have Torpedo Tubes....  |
As I learned today, a Polish First Officer of a Russian submarine, Konstanty "Macaj" Matyjewicz-Maciejewicz, "Captain of the Captains" as he was used to be called, had a patrol on June 8th 1917. They were practising crash diving and the ship refused to surface after submerging and fell down to 27 metres to sit on the sea floor. After some time without hope for any help from outside Konstanty Matyjewicz-Maciejewicz decided to try to rescue the crew. And he did rescue himself and 5 crew members as well, by...
...shooting them out from the torpedo tubes using compressed air.
I do not know if they were all the crew, possibly not, and don't know what happened to the rest. I'll have a look at some sources. I only know that the ship was surfaced, repaired and then the hero became its captain till the end of WWI.
Has anyone of you heard about the man and his achievement?
Here you got a Wiki article (only Polish version):
http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konstan...cz-Maciejewicz