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AT the inquest on the victims of the disaster to submarine A1, Commander Bacon, is reported to have expressed the opinion that as the result of the collision every soul on board was instantly stunned, since the failure to set in action the mechanism for bringing the boat to the surface could not otherwise be accounted for. It is surprising that this opinion should have been received and adopted without comment by both the coroner and the lay Press, seeing that such a result is contrary to all experience of collisions at sea. The occupant of the conning tower, which was the part struck, was no doubt stunned, probably killed, by the blow, but it is difficult to believe that the same fate should have befallen every other person on board, however remote from the point of concussion.
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SCHÄFER, E. The Disaster to Submarine A1. Nature 70, 5 (1904). https://doi.org/10.1038/070005a0
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