An item referred to a comment of the J.I.C. dealing with the sinking of the American submarine USS S-26 after a collision with an escort vessel. She was now resting on the bottom of the Panama Bay on a depth of 290 feet. Surviving crew members sent a message to the surface using a small wooden buoy using the recognition signal objector. At that moment were still 36 men alive in the three center compartments while the torpedo, engine and motor rooms were flooded. However the exact position was unknown and there was no hope to rescue them due to depth and the impossibility of using a diving bell with the flooded compartments.
Source
Map Room Papers (Roosevelt Administration), 1942 - 1945. U.S. Joint Intelligence Committee. Daily summary No. 47 dated 26 January 1942.
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