Voyages of Discovery

BBC Four HD

1:10 AM to 2:10 AM

Sunday 15 September

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Paul Rose recounts the story of how American submarine USS Squalus became stranded in the Atlantic in 1939 after a fault caused a partial flooding of the vessel and the deaths of 26 men. The surviving 33 crew members were rescued by divers under the direction of inventor Charles Momsen, employing his pioneering underwater escape apparatus