Yep, that's the story. Once it was dark we would submerge and then surface the next morning. The typhoon had pretty much moved on but the seas were high enough to be a pain. There were some seasick pukers but not too many. The weapons officer fell out of his rack and broke his elbow plus a couple other slip and falls. Only 2 guys on the bridge at a time until we tried to pull the water logged AF guys out of the water. P-3's and C-130's would vector us to life rafts, we would check the raft for any occupants and move on the next string of rafts. I think the search aircraft would release a string of 5 - 10 rafts tied together with 50 - 100 ft of line and they dropped a lot of those rafts. I had the radar operating for a while until the wave slaps and water down the trunk (to the bridge) messed up the electronics which were located in the trunk. The first 3 guys were in the same raft. They were beat up pretty bad and couldn't retrieve the line thrown to them. Chief Hentz (Chief torpedomen and the boat's diver) jumped into the ocean and swan a line to the raft. Everyone was pulled out of the water lowered below. The next guy we located was the enlisted tail gunner, he was alone in the raft, had the cover over the raft and was in good shape. I think he paid attention to the "survival at sea training" class. He said when he saw our boat approaching it looked like a big black cross coming across the water. He was able to retrieve the line thrown to him and he jumped out of the raft was pulled to the boat. An ops ET named Gray Spaulding pulled him out of the water and lowered him down to control. He was weak in the legs but pretty good shape for being in a rough ocean for long time(don't remember exactly). One guy died while bailing out or after landing in the water. I assume the search aircraft could tell he was dead because we didn't go looking for him. He washed up on the island of Yap some time later. The pilot stayed with the plane for a little bit longer and was picked up by the USS Gurnard well away from our group.I’m guessing this was rescue of B-52 crew that had to eject in middle of a typhoon.