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100	1		_aVickrey, Claude C. _q(Claude Claire), _d1892-1979
245	1	0	_aCrash dive
264		1	_aSalt Lake City, UT : _bProject Gutenberg, _c2025
300			_a1 online resource : _bmultiple file formats
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
500			_aProduced from the May 1929 issue of Blue Book magazine.
500			_aRelease date is 2025-09-04
508			_aRoger Frank and Sue Clark
520			_a"Crash dive by Claude C. Vickrey" is a naval adventure short story written in the late 1920s. It portrays a submarine training exercise that turns into a perilous emergency, focusing on seamanship, technical failure, and the crew’s ingenuity under extreme pressure. A young submarine officer narrates his first crash dive, where a cascading series of small errors culminates in the chief forgetting to shut the main induction valve. Flooding drives the boat to the bottom in mud at about one hundred thirty feet with the bow steeply down, trapping the crew and threatening them with dwindling air and chlorine gas from compromised batteries. Realizing they cannot pump out the water, the officers gamble on forcing the stern to the surface: they blow out fuel, oil, and fresh water, shift every movable weight forward, and work hand pumps in darkness as morale frays. After grueling hours they heel the submarine to roughly seventy-eight degrees, chisel through the exposed stern plating, and raise a makeshift distress flag. A Coast Guard destroyer spots the signal and rescues the exhausted men, capping the ordeal with the captain’s dry reply to a command query: “Position Vertical!” (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534			_pOriginally published: _cChicago, IL: Consolidated Magazines Corporation, 1929
653			_aShort stories
653			_aSubmarines (Ships) -- Fiction
653			_aUnited States. Navy -- Fiction
700	1		_aGustavson, Lealand, _d1899-1966
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76811
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