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Show Sailors and Marines Swim Underwater in Arctic Ice SAN DIEGO. Marine corps and navy underwater swimmers trained during the war have penetrated Arctic ice and slush in below-sur-face forays in recent Alaskan maneuvers, ma-neuvers, Vice Adm. George D. Murray, commander of the first task fleet, disclosed. Operating from submarines ofT Kodiak island, the rubber-suited swimmers knifed through slush six inches deep and brushed against four-inch ice to carry out assignments. assign-ments. They were able to remain in water estimated at four degrees below freezing for periods of more than an hour. Adm. Murray said that not even during the war did swimmers operate oper-ate so far north. Underwater scouting scout-ing teams were developed by the marine corps and the navy during World War II to blast obstacles from enemy beaches in pre-invasion missions.. |