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John Capes escaped a sunken submarine, crossed the cold Ionian Sea, and survived behind enemy lines—with help from Greek civilians who risked their safety to hide him. In December 1941, HMS Perseus struck an Italian mine off Kefalonia, leaving Capes trapped beneath the sea with a desperate choice: remain in the wreck or attempt an escape using a Davis Submerged Escape Apparatus.
This World War II military history documentary follows the sinking, Capes’s reported ascent through dark water, and his journey on occupied Kefalonia until he could return to Allied lines. It also explores why his extraordinary account was questioned and how evidence from the wreck later supported key parts of the story. Discover a remarkable submarine survival story, Greek civilian resistance, and the human cost of the Mediterranean war.
This World War II military history documentary follows the sinking, Capes’s reported ascent through dark water, and his journey on occupied Kefalonia until he could return to Allied lines. It also explores why his extraordinary account was questioned and how evidence from the wreck later supported key parts of the story. Discover a remarkable submarine survival story, Greek civilian resistance, and the human cost of the Mediterranean war.
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00:00The first problem was not reaching shore.
00:02The first problem was getting out of the dead submarine at all.
00:07Somewhere beneath the dark water of the Ionian Sea, a British submarine lay broken on the seabed.
00:15HMS Perseus had been built to move through the ocean as a weapon of war, silent, hidden, and dangerous.
00:23But now she was no longer hunting.
00:26She was no longer moving.
00:28She was no longer a vessel under command.
00:31She had become a steel tomb.
00:35Inside that wreck, John Capes faced a choice that barely deserved the name.
00:42Staying meant waiting for the air to run out or for the cold and darkness to finish what the explosion
00:48had begun.
00:49Leaving meant climbing into the sea itself through pressure, black water, and panic, with only an escape apparatus between him
00:59and drowning.
01:00The equipment that might save him could also kill him if he used it badly.
01:05A mistake in the dark could be final.
01:08A moment of panic could turn the escape into another way to die.
01:13And even if he reached the surface, survival would still not be waiting for him.
01:20Above the wreck was open water.
01:23Beyond that water was Cephalonia, an island under enemy occupation.
01:28To live, Capes would have to survive the submarine, then the sea, then the war on land.
01:35It was the kind of story that later sounded almost too extraordinary to believe.
01:42And for a time, some people did not believe it.
01:46Before the wreck, HMS Perseus had been part of Britain's submarine war in the Mediterranean.
01:52This was not a quiet sea.
01:57By late 1941, the waters around Greece had become a dangerous battlefield of patrols, supply routes, aircraft, warships, and mines.
02:07The Mediterranean was narrow enough for land-based power to reach far across it,
02:13and crowded enough that submarines had to move through danger, even when no enemy ship was in sight.
02:21Greek waters were especially unforgiving.
02:25Islands, channels, and coastal approaches created routes that mattered to both sides.
02:31They also created places where mines could be laid and left behind.
02:36A mine did not need courage.
02:38It did not need skill in battle.
02:41It did not need to see its target.
02:44It only had to wait.
02:46A submarine crew could train for many dangers.
02:49They could prepare for depth charges, surface gunfire, mechanical failure, and the terrible pressure of being hunted underwater.
02:59They could rehearse drills in truss compartments, valves, discipline, and command.
03:05But a mine changed the terms of survival.
03:08There was no duel, no warning shot, no visible opponent, no time to understand the enemy's intention.
03:18One moment a submarine was moving through the sea.
03:22The next, the sea itself seemed to explode against the hull.
03:27That was the hidden danger waiting beneath the Ionian Sea.
03:32John Capes was not the man the story would normally have followed.
03:37He was not the commander of HMS Perseus.
03:40He was not the officer at the periscope.
03:43He was not the figure around whom a naval battle would usually be remembered.
03:48He was a leading stoker, a man whose service belonged to the working life of a warship.
03:55Machinery, heat, pressure, maintenance, and the unseen labor that kept naval power alive.
04:02But aboard Persis, his presence was unusual.
04:07According to the surviving story, Capes was traveling on the submarine rather than serving as part of her normal crew.
04:15That detail matters.
04:18It made him an unexpected figure in the disaster, and later, it helped make the story more complicated.
04:25He was a man present in a place where he was not expected to become famous aboard a submarine whose
04:33fate should have left no easy path for any survivor.
04:37When Perseus went down, the names most likely to appear in official memory were the commander, the officers, and the
04:46crew lost with the boat.
04:48Yet the name that would endure most powerfully was Capes, not because he commanded the submarine, because he came back
04:57from it.
04:58On the 6th of December, 1941, HMS Perseus struck an Italian mine off Cephalonia.
05:06There was no great surface battle, no exchange of shells across the moonlit sea, no dramatic duel between two ships
05:15turning broadside in the darkness.
05:17The disaster came from below and beside her, from a weapon that had been waiting silently in the water.
05:26The explosion was enough to end the submarine as a fighting machine.
05:31In a submarine, catastrophe is different from catastrophe on the surface.
05:37There is no open deck to run across, no lifeboat waiting beside a railing, no wide sky above the wounded
05:46ship.
05:47There are compartments, hatches, pipes, valves, gauges, narrow passageways, and men trying to understand in seconds what has happened to
05:57the world around them.
05:58When a submarine is damaged underwater, the machine that once protected its crew can become the thing that traps them.
06:07The hull that kept the sea out becomes a prison.
06:11The darkness becomes complete.
06:14The familiar spaces of duty and routine become obstacles.
06:20Every breath begins to matter.
06:22Every decision shrinks under the pressure of time.
06:26Perseus sank beneath the Ionian Sea and the water closed over her.
06:31For most of the men aboard, the story ended there.
06:35But somewhere inside the broken submarine, John Capes was still alive.
06:41That fact alone did not mean rescue.
06:44It only meant the beginning of a different battle.
06:47He was below the surface, inside a wreck, with the world of air and light separated from him by cold
06:55black water.
06:56There was no safe corridor upward.
07:00There was no guarantee that the escape equipment would work.
07:04There was no certainty that his body could endure what the sea demanded.
07:08The submarine had been lost.
07:12The war outside had vanished.
07:14Now the battle was inside the hull.
07:17For the men still alive inside HMS Perseus, the disaster did not end when the submarine reached the seabed.
07:26That was when the second disaster began.
07:29The explosion had taken the submarine out of the war in a single moment.
07:35But inside the hull, time kept moving.
07:39Air still had to be breathed.
07:41Injuries still had to be endured.
07:44Compartments still had to be understood in the dark.
07:47The boat was not floating helplessly on the surface.
07:51She was underwater.
07:53That changed everything.
07:55A stranded ship can sometimes be seen.
07:58Men can jump into the sea, cling to wreckage, signal for help, or wait for rescue.
08:05But a submarine on the bottom is different.
08:08It is hidden by the same water it was built to travel through.
08:12The crew are not only survivors of an explosion.
08:16They are prisoners inside the machine that once protected them.
08:21The steel around them had been built to resist pressure and keep the sea outside.
08:27After the mine strike, that strength became terrifying.
08:32The hull was no longer only a shield.
08:35It was a barrier between living men and the air above them.
08:40There was no simple path upward.
08:43No open hatch leading into safety.
08:45No rescue party cutting through the dark in time.
08:48If anyone was going to live, survival had to begin inside the wreck itself.
08:56According to the story that survived, John Capes was among the few still able to act.
09:02What he faced was not only physical danger.
09:06Panic could become as deadly as water.
09:08A trapped man had to control his breathing when every instinct told him to gasp.
09:14And somewhere inside Perseus, there was a device meant for the emergency every submariner feared.
09:23Escape equipment existed.
09:25But could it save a man from this?
09:28The apparatus linked to Capes' survival was the Davis Submerged Escape Apparatus.
09:34It was not a miracle machine.
09:37It did not turn a trapped submariner into a diver.
09:40However, it did not remove the darkness, the cold, the pressure, or the fear.
09:46What it offered was narrower than that, and more desperate.
09:50It offered a chance to breathe while escaping upward through the sea.
09:55For a man inside a sunken submarine, that chance was everything.
10:00But it came with dangers of its own.
10:03Breathing underwater is never just a matter of having air.
10:08Pressure changes.
10:09The body reacts.
10:11The mind rebels.
10:13A man rising from depth has to keep control when there's no horizon, no surface, and no clear sense of
10:21distance.
10:21In daylight, with training, calm water, and help nearby, underwater escape would still be frightening.
10:31Capes did not have that kind of world around him.
10:34He had a wrecked submarine beneath the Ionian Sea.
10:37He had damage, darkness, and uncertainty.
10:41Staying inside the hull meant almost certain death.
10:45Leaving it meant entering an environment where a small mistake could be final.
10:50The Davis apparatus mattered because it turned impossible into barely possible.
10:56But barely possible is not safe.
11:00The device had to be prepared.
11:03It had to be used correctly.
11:05Capes had to leave the submarine and trust that the equipment would give him enough breath for the ascent.
11:11He also had to trust himself not to lose control when control mattered most.
11:18The apparatus could help him reach the surface.
11:21It could not calm the sea.
11:23It could not shorten the distance to shore.
11:26And it could not make Cephalonia safe.
11:30Before John Capes could rise through the sea, he first had to do something almost unbearable.
11:36He had to prepare to leave the submarine.
11:40That sounds simple only from a distance.
11:43Inside the wreck, every part of that decision was loaded with danger.
11:48The submarine was damaged.
11:50The light was gone or failing.
11:53The air was limited.
11:55The men who remained alive had to make sense of a disaster from inside the disaster itself.
12:01There was no easy choice.
12:03To stay was to remain inside a sealed space that could not save them.
12:09To leave was to step into cold, black water with no certainty of reaching the surface.
12:16It was not a choice between safety and danger.
12:19It was a choice between two different forms of death with one narrow path running between them.
12:25Capes had to locate and prepare the escape apparatus.
12:29He had to reach a place from which escape was possible.
12:33He had to manage the physical reality of the submarine around him and the mental reality of what he was
12:39about to do.
12:40A submarine is not a doorway.
12:44It is a pressure vessel.
12:47Opening a way out while underwater meant allowing the sea to become part of the escape.
12:52The same water that had killed the boat would now be the only route back to life.
12:58No invented words are needed to understand the terror of that moment.
13:04The facts are enough.
13:06The submarine was on the bottom.
13:09The air was not unlimited.
13:11Rescue from outside could not be counted on.
13:14The equipment was dangerous if mishandled.
13:17The surface was somewhere above him, unseen.
13:21Every instinct in the body would want air, light, space and certainty.
13:27Capes had none of those things.
13:29What he had was a device, a damaged submarine, and the decision to move before time ran out.
13:37To live, he had to open a way into the sea.
13:41According to Capes' account, he left HMS Perseus and began the ascent through the dark water of the Ionian Sea.
13:49This was the central moment of the survival story.
13:52Behind him was the submarine.
13:55Around him was the sea.
13:57Above him was the surface, but he could not simply walk toward it, or see it, or know with comfort
14:04how far away it was.
14:05He had to rise through water that offered no road and no mercy.
14:10The darkness mattered.
14:13Underwater, darkness does more than hide things.
14:17It removes direction.
14:18It turns distance into guesswork.
14:21It makes the body feel alone in a space too large to understand.
14:26A man escaping from a wreck does not have the calm of a swimmer choosing his path.
14:31He has to trust his equipment, his training, his breath, and the hope that upward will remain upward.
14:39Cold would have worked against him.
14:42Pressure would have worked against him.
14:45Disorientation would have worked against him.
14:48Even success could become dangerous if it came with panic.
14:51The body wants to fight for air.
14:54But in an escape like this, fighting blindly could waste the strength needed to survive.
15:01The apparatus gave Capes a chance to breathe, but it did not remove the need for control.
15:07He had to keep moving upward.
15:10He had to endure the ascent without losing his grip on the process that was keeping him alive.
15:17This is why the story later troubled people.
15:21Escaping from a sunken submarine is not just rare.
15:26It sounds like something that belongs between fact and legend,
15:30especially when the man who tells it is the only one who returns to explain what happened inside.
15:36But in that moment, later doubt did not matter.
15:40Only the surface mattered.
15:43At some point, the black water finally gave way.
15:47Capes reached air.
15:49The sealed darkness of Perseus no longer held him.
15:53For any ordinary story, that might have been the ending.
15:57For Capes, it was only the next beginning.
16:00The submarine was behind him.
16:03The sea was not.
16:04The surface did not welcome him.
16:07It only gave him another battlefield.
16:10Capes had escaped the submarine, but he had not escaped the Ionian Sea.
16:14The danger had changed shape.
16:17Inside Perseus, the threat had been confinement, steel walls, trapped air, darkness, and the wreck around him.
16:26Now the threat was exposure.
16:28Open water.
16:29Cold.
16:30Distance.
16:31Exhaustion.
16:32The uncertainty of where he was, how far he had to go, and whether his strength would last.
16:39A man can survive the impossible and still drown afterward.
16:43That was the cruelty of the next stage.
16:47Reaching the surface meant he had done what almost no one could have expected.
16:52But the sea did not care what he had already endured.
16:56It did not shorten the swim because he had escaped a wreck.
17:00It did not warm itself because he was tired, hurt, or alone.
17:04It gave him air and then demanded movement.
17:09Cephalonia lay somewhere ahead.
17:11To reach it, Capes had to swim through cold water after surviving an underwater escape from a dead submarine.
17:19Every stroke would have cost strength.
17:22Every moment in the water would have pulled heat from his body.
17:26Night and sea together could make the island feel close one moment and unreachable the next.
17:32And even shore was not safety.
17:37Capes was a British serviceman in enemy-controlled territory.
17:41If he reached land, he would not step into rescue.
17:45He would step into occupation.
17:47Inside the submarine, survival depended on equipment, nerve, and breath.
17:53In the sea, it depended on endurance.
17:56On land, it would depend on silence.
17:59When Capes reached Cephalonia, the story widened.
18:03Until this point, it had been the ordeal of one man against a wreck and the sea.
18:09But occupied territory changed the meaning of survival.
18:13A lone British sailor on an island under enemy control was not simply a castaway.
18:19He was a wanted man by the fact of his uniform, his nationality, and the war around him.
18:27Capture was an obvious danger.
18:30But it was not the only one.
18:32Anyone who helped him could also be placed at risk.
18:36That is what makes this part of the story so important.
18:41The survival of John Capes was no longer only about John Capes.
18:46It depended on civilians who had their own families, their own fears, and their own lives under occupation.
18:55Helping an allied serviceman was not an act without consequence.
18:59It required secrecy.
19:02It required judgment.
19:04It required the willingness to accept danger for a man who had come out of the sea with almost nothing
19:11except the fact that he was alive.
19:14The Greek civilians in this story should not be treated as background figures.
19:20Without them, the escape from Perseus might have become only a delayed death.
19:27Capes had survived the wreck and the water, but he still needed shelter, concealment, and time.
19:34That is often how survival stories work.
19:37The moment everyone remembers is the impossible escape.
19:41The quieter courage comes afterward.
19:45Capes was hidden and helped by local Greeks until he could eventually return to allied lines.
19:51That sentence can pass quickly, but it contains an entire second survival story.
19:58To hide a man is to create a chain of risk.
20:02Someone has to know where he is.
20:04Someone has to help him move or stay or eat or wait.
20:08Someone has to keep silent when silence itself becomes dangerous.
20:14In occupied territory, survival is rarely private.
20:19One person's secret can become another person's sentence.
20:24Capes had already done the part of the story that seems impossible from the outside.
20:29He had escaped from a sunken submarine.
20:32He had reached the surface.
20:34He had swum toward Cephalonia.
20:37Those events gave the story its extraordinary shape.
20:41But the people who hid him gave it its continuation.
20:45Every day he remained undiscovered mattered.
20:49Every act of help connected his survival to the courage of civilians,
20:54whose names are often less remembered than the man they saved.
20:58That does not make their role smaller.
21:01It makes it more important to say plainly.
21:05The escape from the submarine made the story extraordinary.
21:09The people who hid him made it possible.
21:14By the time Capes eventually returned to allied lines,
21:18he had survived three different worlds of danger.
21:21First, the trapped darkness of HMS Perseus.
21:25Then, the cold water between the wreck and Cephalonia.
21:29Then, the silent danger of occupation,
21:32where staying alive depended not on machinery, but on trust.
21:37Yet even after all that, the story was not finished.
21:41The very things that made it remarkable also made it vulnerable to doubt.
21:46Capes had escaped the submarine.
21:50But he had not escaped the question his survival left behind.
21:55When John Capes eventually returned to allied lines,
21:58the physical journey had finally closed.
22:01He had survived the submarine.
22:04He had survived the sea.
22:06He had survived occupied Cephalonia.
22:09Each stage should have been enough to kill him.
22:12The mine had destroyed HMS Perseus and sent her to the bottom of the Ionian Sea.
22:18The wreck had trapped him in darkness.
22:21The escape had forced him upward through black water,
22:25with only emergency equipment and self-control between him and death.
22:30The swim had carried him toward an island where land did not mean rescue.
22:35And once ashore, survival had depended on people willing to hide him under occupation.
22:42By any ordinary measure, coming back should have been the end of the story.
22:47But extraordinary survival creates its own problem.
22:52The more impossible a story sounds, the more people ask how much of it can be proven.
22:59Capes had not returned from an ordinary shipwreck.
23:03He had come back from a submarine almost everyone else aboard had not escaped.
23:08He had described a path from a mined submarine, through the sea,
23:13to occupied land, and then back toward allied safety.
23:18That was not easy for everyone to accept.
23:21It was not only a story of endurance.
23:24It was a story with missing witnesses, damaged records, a wreck hidden beneath the sea,
23:31and a survivor whose account stood almost alone.
23:35He had escaped death.
23:37What he had not escaped was disbelief.
23:41The doubt around Capes' story should not be treated as cruelty.
23:46It came from the scale of what he said had happened.
23:49A man escaping from a sunken submarine is already rare.
23:54A man escaping after a mine strike, surfacing in the Ionian Sea,
24:00swimming toward Cephalonia, surviving enemy-controlled territory,
24:05and later returning to allied lines sounds almost beyond the normal limits of survival.
24:12That does not make it false.
24:14But it does explain why people questioned it.
24:17Wartime disasters often leave behind broken evidence.
24:22Ships sink.
24:23Logs are lost.
24:24Men who might have confirmed details are killed.
24:28Reports are written from fragments.
24:30Survivors remember events under shock, injury, exhaustion, and fear.
24:36Later retellings can sharpen some parts of a story and blur others.
24:40In a case like HMS Perseus, the central witness to the escape was also the man whose survival needed explaining.
24:50There were questions people could reasonably ask.
24:53How exactly had Capes escaped from the wreck?
24:56What was the condition inside the submarine?
25:00How much could be confirmed about the route out?
25:03What details came from memory and what details could be tested against physical evidence?
25:10How much had been preserved accurately?
25:13And how much had been shaped by time?
25:16The point is not that the story should be stripped of its power.
25:20The point is that power is not the same as proof.
25:24The doubt did not erase the story.
25:27It forced people to ask what could be proven.
25:30And for years the most important witness remained silent beneath the Ionian Sea.
25:39The discovery of the wreck changed the way Capes' story could be understood.
25:45Until then, HMS Perseus had been more than a lost submarine.
25:51She had been in absence.
25:53A place beneath the sea where the answers were hidden.
25:57As long as the wreck remained unreachable, the story depended heavily on the surviving account, wartime records,
26:06and the difficult work of judging what could have happened inside a submarine no one could easily examine.
26:13But a wreck is not only wreckage.
26:16It is evidence.
26:18A sunken submarine can preserve details that memory cannot.
26:22Its position, its damage, its compartments, and the physical reality of the hull can all help historians understand what happened.
26:33It cannot answer every human question.
26:36It cannot restore every lost voice.
26:39It cannot tell us every decision made inside the darkness.
26:43But it can test parts of a story against steel.
26:47For Capes, that mattered.
26:49The uploaded account states that the discovery of HMS Perseus helped support key parts of his story.
26:57That is an important distinction.
27:00It does not require turning every moment of the escape into perfect certainty.
27:05It means the wreck gave the survival account a physical anchor, something stronger than legend and more permanent than rumor.
27:14The sea had kept the submarine hidden.
27:18But it had also preserved the question.
27:21When Perseus was found, the boat became more than the grave of the men who did not return.
27:28She became part of the evidence for the one man who did.
27:32The submarine that almost buried his story became the thing that helped bring it back.
27:38So what can be said with confidence?
27:42HMS Perseus struck an Italian mine off Cephalonia on the 6th of December 1941 and sank beneath the Ionian Sea.
27:52John Capes survived.
27:55According to the surviving account, he used a Davis submerged escape apparatus to leave the submarine, reach the surface, and
28:03swam toward Cephalonia.
28:05After reaching the island, he was hidden and helped by local Greek civilians until he could eventually return to Allied
28:14lines.
28:15His story was later questioned because it seemed so extraordinary.
28:20The escape appeared almost impossible, and the records could not easily answer every detail.
28:27But the later discovery of the wreck helped support key parts of his account.
28:33That is the responsible shape of the story.
28:36There are also things that should not be invented.
28:40The exact sequence inside the submarine should be handled carefully.
28:45The exact condition of every survivor inside the wreck should not be guessed.
28:52Final conversation should not be created for drama.
28:56Private thought should not be placed into Cape's mind unless they are directly supported by a source.
29:03The physical evidence from the wreck should not be described in technical detail unless that detail has been verified.
29:12The story does not need exaggeration.
29:15It is already dramatic enough.
29:18A submarine was destroyed by a mine in wartime.
29:23Most of the men aboard did not come back.
29:26One man escaped from beneath the sea, reached an occupied island, survived because civilians took risks to protect him,
29:34and lived long enough for his account to be doubted, examined, and partly supported by the wreck itself.
29:43That is not a clean legend.
29:46It is better than that.
29:48It is a survival story with grief around it.
29:51A mystery with evidence beneath it.
29:53A human account shaped by war, loss, courage, uncertainty, and memory.
30:01John Capes came back from HMS Perseus.
30:04The question was whether history would come back with him.
30:07John Capes' story survived because it stood on the edge between the impossible and the proven.
30:15At first it sounded like something the sea should have swallowed forever.
30:20A submarine struck a mine.
30:23The hull went down.
30:25Most of the men aboard did not return.
30:28One man came back with a story of darkness, pressure, emergency equipment, cold water, an occupied island,
30:37and civilians who risked themselves to keep him alive.
30:41It was extraordinary.
30:43That was why it endured.
30:45It was also why it was questioned.
30:47Survival stories can sound unbelievable because survival itself is sometimes improbable.
30:54The line between what seems impossible and what actually happened is not always clear when the evidence lies beneath the
31:02sea.
31:03The water hides wrecks.
31:06It hides damage.
31:07It hides routes of escape.
31:10It hides the final moments of men who cannot testify for themselves.
31:14For John Capes, equipment mattered.
31:18Without the Davis-submerged escape apparatus, the route out of HMS Perseus may have been closed before it began.
31:27But equipment was not enough.
31:29Nerve mattered.
31:31Breath mattered.
31:32Endurance mattered.
31:34The ability to keep moving when every part of the body wanted certainty mattered.
31:39And after he reached Cephalonia, civilian courage mattered just as much as the escape itself.
31:47The submarine had nearly become the place where his story ended.
31:52Instead, years later, it became part of the evidence that helped bring the story back.
31:58At the beginning, Perseus seemed only like a tomb beneath the Ionian Sea.
32:04By the end, that tomb had become a witness.
32:08But John Capes' survival should never erase the loss around it.
32:13HMS Perseus remained beneath the Ionian Sea as the resting place of the men who did not escape.
32:21Their story is part of his story.
32:24The silence inside that wreck does not make them less important.
32:28It makes the survival of one man more solemn because every breath he carried back belonged to a disaster that
32:37took many others.
32:39That is what gives the story its weight.
32:42It is not only a tale of one submariner defeating death.
32:47It is a story about a submarine crew lost in wartime.
32:51About a man who came up from the deep.
32:54And about people on an occupied island who helped turn survival into return.
33:00Capes lived because several things came together.
33:04A piece of escape equipment existed.
33:06A man under impossible pressure used it.
33:10The sea did not take him before he reached the surface.
33:14His strength lasted long enough to bring him toward Cephalonia.
33:19And when he reached land, civilians chose danger instead of indifference.
33:25The most extraordinary part of the story is not simply that death was close.
33:31In submarine war, death was always close.
33:34The extraordinary part is that one man found a way through it.
33:39And that years later, the sea gave back enough evidence for the world to take his account seriously.
33:46HMS Perseus went down as a warship.
33:49She remained as a grave.
33:51And eventually, she became evidence.
33:53John Capes came back from beneath the Ionian Sea with a story many struggled to believe.
34:00But the deeper meaning of that story is not only whether one man survived the impossible.
34:06It is that the impossible sometimes leaves traces.
34:09In steel.
34:11In memory.
34:12In the courage of strangers.
34:14And in the name of a submarine that was lost, but not entirely forgotten.
34:21If you found this story worth remembering, share your thoughts below.
34:26Had you heard of John Capes before?
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