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From July 1929 to July 1931, McCann was assigned to the Maintenance Division, Bureau of Construction and Repair, where he developed the submarine rescue chamber. When the bell was completed in late 1930, it was produced as the McCann Submarine Rescue Chamber (SRC) (Navy designated the first 12 of these as [YRC] 1–12, YRC-4 was lost aboard the ...
From August 1931 until June 1934, he commanded the submarine USS Bonita (SS-165), completing training for use of the Momsen Lung, and the McCann Submarine Rescue Chamber at Coco Solo. He had consecutive duty with the Board of Inspection and Survey, Pacific Coast Section, at San Francisco, California, and at Long Beach, California.
He was one of 33 men rescued by the McCann Rescue Chamber when the submarine USS Squalus sank in 240 feet of water during routine sea trials in the Atlantic Ocean off Portsmouth, New Hampshire, on May 23, 1939, and was rescued in a two-day rescue operation.
The sinking drowned 26 crew members, but an ensuing rescue operation, using the McCann Rescue Chamber for the first time, saved the lives of the remaining 33 aboard. Squalus was salvaged in late 1939 and recommissioned as Sailfish in May 1940.
The desperate search for a submersible that disappeared and imploded while taking five people to view the Titanic wreckage has drawn attention to other deep-sea rescues. Fifty years ago, two ...
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A motor room escape hatch was added, the motor room being the after most compartment. The tapered after casing became a step as a result of this modification. The boats also received salvage air connections and mating surfaces around topside hatches to allow the McCann Rescue Chamber to rescue trapped crewmen. [16]
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