'WE HAVE BEEN HIT BY A FISH!'LEST WE FORGET THE GREAT SUBMARINE VS. SWORDFISH BATTLE OF 1967

摘要

Marvin McCamis, Valentine Wilson, and Edward Zarudzki comprised a three-man crew operating the Navy-owned deep-sea submersible ALVIN (DSV-2) in July 1967 when they were attacked by an unusual enemy. "We have been hit by a fish!" one of the sub's pilots shouted. At a depth of approximately 2,000 feet off the coast of Florida, the research submersible, best known for exploring the wreck of the HMS Titanic, was conducting an up-close investigation of a curious coral specimen when it was suddenly blindsided by an aggravated swordfish (no relation to the catastrophic John Travolta and Halle Berry disaster of 2001). The scraping noise bewildered the crew, each believing the sound to be the result of drifting or a depth mis-calculation. Looking out the porthole, however, they saw the sub was stationary.