Episode 3.

That Sinking Feeling: Adventures in ADHD and Ship Salvage is about my son’s ADHD seen through the lens of my Dad’s ship salvage career. It’s peppered with stories and insights from interviews with parents whose kids have ADHD and from individuals who have ADHD themselves. Episode Three: 2,000 gallons of sulfuric Acid and a submarine full of pancake batter. The shipwreck in this episode is the about the H3.

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Wikipedia on the USS-H-3 submarine.

A 2018 article in the Times Standard on the 100th anniversary of the USS Milwaukee wreck.

Ruins of the USS Milwaukee Shipwreck. Part I from Humboldt Outdoors.

And Part II:

Books, Chapters, and Articles about the H-3

Before The Dolphins Guild: A Story of Heroic Efforts to Save Two Navy Submarine Crews Trapped Under the Sea in 1915 and 1916
by Jon Humboldt Gates

Mud, Muscle, and Miracles: Marine Salvage in the United States Navy
by Department of the Navy, Captain Charles A. Bartholomew, USN. There are just a few pages in the book about the H-3 and the Milwaukee, but it’s well worth reading.

Salvaging the Submarine H-3 International Marine Engineering, September 1917, technical article about the salvage job. (page 396+)