Squalus ' Last Survivor Dies

Carl Bryson always prided himself as a youth in being able to swim underwater on a single breath across the Saluda River in his native South Carolina. That kind of endurance was to serve him well in 1939 when he was among 33 men to survive the sinking of the newly launched USS Squalus (SS-192) off the coast of New Hampshire. The greatest submarine rescue operation in Navy history spared his life and those of his shipmates in an accident that claimed 26 others.

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