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Mar. 22 British Official Photograph-Admiralty. Issued by Central Office of Information.: Rough Seas Foil Atlantic Survival Tests.: Two groups of Naval Volunteers had a really rough time in the Atlantic over the week-end when the Ocean turned its vicious worst on five-day survival tests from the destroyer Carron'. The first group entered the water on Saturday - and had to be fished out ninety minutes later - when their raft was made unseaworthy by the battering seas. On the Sunday a second crew entered the water aboard an Oval cabopied Admiralty-type raft - which survived the battering water O.K. but the destroyer captain decided totake the men off - he decided it was bad policy to risk their liwes in such seas. The original idea was for the men to spend five days aboard the rafts - existing on minimum of food and water - for testing reactions against boredom fatigue and short rations. The location was 200 miles off west Coast of Ireland. Photo shows The Carron's First Lieut. Shouts order as the first raft - around RFD, is hauled back in alongside - after some ninety minutes of battling with impossible seas

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