Periscope Quotes
This was the last procedure of the day, and we were going back into Pearl Harbor... We came up to periscope depth, and another member of the crew took the periscope up and made two complete rotations at 360 degrees.
- John Hall
There was a large hole in the pressure hull around one-and-a-half meters to two meters, ... And now we know for sure that in result of the powerful blast, 75 or 80 percent of the crew died within 90 seconds since the submarine was at a so-called periscope depth at the moment, which implies that all the crew were at battle stations in the first two or three watertight compartments, and they were destroyed within 90 seconds of the blast.
- Vladimir Putin
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