The Man Behind the Greatest Submarine Rescue in History
4 cassettes read by Kevin Conway
On the eve of World War II, America's newest submarine plunged helplessly to the bottom of the North Atlantic during a test dive. Miraculously, thirty-three crew members remained alive. While their wives and girlfriends waited in nearly unbearable tension on shore, their ultimate fate would depend on one man.
In this thrilling true story of terror, heroism and courage, Peter Maas brings us in vivid detail a blow-by-blow account of the disaster and its uncertain outcome. The name of the sub was the 'Squalas'. The man was a U S Navy office, Charles "Swede" Momsen, an extraordinary combination of visionary, scientist and man of action. Battling red tape and disbelievers, he risked his own life again and again against the unknown in his efforts to invent and pioneer every escape and rescue device, every deep-sea diving technique, to save an entombed crew.
