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Submarine Rescue: The Race to Save Squalus | Into the Deep | 1

Against The Odds

CHAPTER

The Squalice Sank

In the run up to World War II, the USS Squalice was set to become the pride of the American submarine fleet. The surviving crewmen found themselves trapped on the ocean floor 240 feet down. And it would take an unprecedented rescue effort to bring them back alive. In the Navy, you were six times likelier to die on a sub than a surficial. If I don't get a job, my family will lose our ranch. Gerald McLeese's last chance to save his family.

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