THETIS DISASTER
NSUCCESSFUL RACE AGAINST TIME LONDON, July 17. At the Thetis inquiry, Captain tart, marine surveyor, who was on oard the salvage tug, described the ramatic race against time to gain ntry to the submarine when the ern was about 15 feet out of the ater. Shortly before the Thetis plunged the last time the wreckmaster lambered on the Thetis to remove le outer cover and began to loosen le bolts of the inner cover. He reorted that there was considerable ir pressure, whereupon Captain [art ordered him to screw up. The 'reckmaster jumped off as the submarine swung dangerously. The hances were then 100 to one against escue. The weight and strair. during the lifting operations a week iter indicated that the submarine n in 450 tons of water since stern rose the first time. The inush was probably caused by the final mbmergence. Captain Hart agreed that lien th" estroyer flotilla arrived with drilling lant it would have been possible tc ore a hole in the stern and attach an irpipe. but when the Thetis submerged it was certain that no diver m the United Kingdom could have escendcd at the state of the tide and rilled a hole or anything else.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 168, 19 July 1939, Page 7
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