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A US Navy Submarine Rescue Chamber, an improved version of the McCann Submarine Rescue Chamber, at Naval Air Station North Island, San Diego, 2007. The McCann Submarine Rescue Chamber is a device for rescuing submariners from a submarine that is unable to surface.
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 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 ...
It lowered the Rescue Chamber — a revised version of a diving bell invented by Momsen — and in four dives over the next 13 hours recovered all 33 survivors in the first deep submarine rescue ever. McCann was in charge of Chamber operations, with Momsen commanding the divers. [11] The submarine was eventually raised and renamed USS Sailfish.
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.
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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.
Charles Bowers Momsen (June 21, 1896 – May 25, 1967), nicknamed "Swede", was born in Flushing, New York. [1] He was an American pioneer in submarine rescue for the United States Navy, and he invented the underwater escape device later called the "Momsen lung", for which he received the Navy Distinguished Service Medal in 1929. [1]