The Nation - News from April 27, 1988

Sailors boarded the disabled submarine Bonefish drifting off the Florida coast and began testing and pumping out what they said appeared to be toxic gases inside, a Navy spokesman said. Earlier, 19 of the 22 sailors injured in Sunday’s explosions and fire aboard the submarine were discharged from a Jacksonville, Fla., hospital. The five-man boarding crew planned to continue its work throughout the night before any effort was made to enter the submarine, a spokesman for the Atlantic Fleet in Norfolk, Va., said. The boarding crew did not enter the sub and had nothing to report on three missing sailors.