From the moment they hit the water, the panicked flight crew were close to tears. Being grasped and hauled onto the world's only submarine of its kind, they lay sprawled out, gasping on the wet deck.
"Quick! Help me pull him up!" The flight engineer, who had been holding onto the copilot, shouted for assistance to get the unconscious copilot onto the submarine: "He's injured!"
However, the sailor who had jumped into the sea ignored him and just pushed him towards the submarine. As he pushed, he explained, "He's already dead!"
The crew hadn't realized that they had been floating in the sea with a corpse for over an hour, never letting go until they were rescued.
"You all did well." The submarine's captain stood atop the command casing, looking down at the men and shouted loudly.
Knowing he had lost a crew member, the pilot sat in silence, soaking wet. Though the seawater wasn't ice-cold, his mood was far from good.
