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Descent into Darkness - Pearl Harbor, 1941—A Navy Diver’s Memoir (Paperback)
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Descent into Darkness - Pearl Harbor, 1941—A Navy Diver’s Memoir (Paperback)
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On December 7, 1941, as the great battleships Arizona, Oklahoma,
and Utah lay paralysed and burning in the aftermath of the Japanese
attack on Pearl Harbor, a crack team of U.S. Navy salvage divers
headed by Edward C. Raymer were hurriedly flown to Oahu from the
mainland. The divers had been given a Herculean task; to rescue the
sailors and Marines trapped below, and resurrect the pride of the
Pacific fleet. Now for the first time, the chief diver of the Pearl
Harbor salvage operations, Cmdr. Edward C. Raymer, USN (Ret.),
tells the whole story, in the only book available that describes
the raising and salvage operations of sunken battleships following
the December 7th attack. Once Raymer and his crew of divers entered
the interiors of the sunken shipwrecks, attempting untested and
potentially deadly diving techniques, they experienced a world of
total blackness, unable to see even the faceplates of their
helmets. By memorising the ships’blueprints and using their sense
of touch, the divers groped their way hundreds of feet inside the
sunken vessels to make repairs and salvage vital war material. The
divers learned how to cope with such unseen dangers as falling
objects, sharks, the eerie presence of floating human bodies, and
the constant threat of Japanese attacks from above. Though many of
these divers were killed or seriously injured during the wartime
salvage operations, on the whole they had great success performing
what seemed to be impossible jobs. Among their credits, Raymer’s
crew raised the sunken battleships West Virginia, Nevada, and
California.
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