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  2. Trieste (bathyscaphe) - Wikipedia

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    They reached a depth of about 10,916 metres (35,814 ft). The bathyscaphe was designed by Swiss scientist Auguste Piccard, the father of pilot Jacques Piccard. It was built in Italy and first launched in 1953. The vessel was first owned and operated by the French Navy until it was purchased by the US Navy in 1958. It was taken out of service in ...

  3. Bathyscaphe - Wikipedia

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    Bathyscaphe Trieste before its only dive into the Mariana Trench The Trieste in 1958. A bathyscaphe (/ ˈ b æ θ ɪ ˌ s k eɪ f,-ˌ s k æ f /) is a free-diving, self-propelled deep-sea submersible, consisting of a crew cabin similar to a Bathysphere, but suspended below a float rather than from a surface cable, as in the classic Bathysphere design.

  4. Trieste II (Bathyscaphe) - Wikipedia

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    On 25 April 1972, Trieste II recovered a satellite package called a "bucket" weighing several hundred pounds from a depth of greater than 16,000 feet (4,900 m), a record at the time. [3] Trieste II (DSV-1) continued her active service in the Pacific Fleet into 1980.

  5. DSV Alvin - Wikipedia

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    Test depth: 6,500 m (21,300 ft) Capacity: ... a Skipjack-class submarine armed with nuclear torpedoes, ... Dragon class bathyscaphe – Chinese bathyscaphe class;

  6. FNRS-3 - Wikipedia

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    The FNRS-3 or FNRS III is a bathyscaphe of the French Navy. It is currently preserved at Toulon. She set world depth records, competing against a more refined version of her design, the Trieste. The French Navy eventually replaced her with the bathyscaphe FNRS-4 [clarification needed], in the 1960s. [1]

  7. Project Nekton - Wikipedia

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    23 January 1960: the Bathyscaphe Trieste just before the record dive. Behind her is the USS Lewis Don Walsh and Jacques Piccard inside the Bathyscaphe Trieste. Project Nekton was the codename for a series of very shallow test dives (three of them in Apra Harbor) and also deep-submergence operations in the Pacific Ocean near Guam that ended with the United States Navy-owned research bathyscaphe ...

  8. FNRS-2 - Wikipedia

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    The FNRS-2 was the first bathyscaphe. It was created by Auguste Piccard. Work started in 1937 but was interrupted by World War II. The deep-diving submarine was finished in 1948. The bathyscaphe was named after the Belgian Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique (FNRS), the funding organization for the

  9. Striver (bathyscaphe) - Wikipedia

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    Striver (Fen-Dou-Zhe; Chinese: 奋斗者) bathyscaphe is a type of deep-submergence vehicle built in the People's Republic of China (PRC). It was built by China State Shipbuilding Corporation (CSSC). It can accommodate three crew members, and is designed to reach depths of more than 10,000 meters.