The nine-man Turkish crew was subdued in seconds.

The Superfortress ditched alongside at 12:38 hours, and Bering Strait picked up the nine-man crew in short order.

She then proceeded to round up the lugger's nine-man Korean crew, all of whom had taken to the water at the first hint of trouble.

Seven of the nine-man crew were killed, and one of the unarmed nuclear bombs fell from the plane and broke apart on impact on a farm.

During operating season, a nine-man crew smooths the track every day.

Although the tug sank in five minutes, the nine-man crew of the Dora was taken on board the Cynthia and no one was lost.

After the attack, she and her nine-man crew vanished, never realizing they had gone down in history books as the first submarine to sink a warship.

Brian Sammut, who supervises the nine-man crew, said they met the goal 92 percent of the time last month.

Under McBride's leadership, the program expanded from two nine-man crews to 318 one-week crews by the time of his death on June 2, 2010.

The three scuttling charges of TNT were positioned to ensure her sinking would be steady and flat and the nine-man crew embarked.