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Opening the great depths : the bathyscaph Trieste and pioneers of undersea exploration / Norman Polmar and Lee J. Mathers.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Polmar, Norman, author.
- Mathers, Lee J., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Piccard, Jacques.
- Trieste (Bathyscaphe)--History.
- Trieste (Bathyscaphe).
- Bathyscaphe--United States--History--20th century.
- Bathyscaphe.
- Underwater exploration--United States--History--20th century.
- Underwater exploration.
- Explorers--United States--Biography.
- Explorers.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (400 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Annapolis, Maryland : Naval Institute Press, [2021]
- Summary:
- Opening the Great Depths is the story of the Trieste, its officers and sailors, and the civilians, often told in their own words, documenting for the first time the earliest years of humanity's probing into Earth's final frontier.
- Contents:
- Foreword / by Dr. Don Walsh
- Columbus of the stratosphere
- A balloon into the depths
- Admirals of the abyss
- White knight
- The new world
- The ocean's deepest hole
- The deepest dive
- The Navy Electronics Laboratory years
- SubSunk
- The Thresher search, 1963
- The Trieste II
- Between disasters
- A "Trieste III"
- Mission lost
- Scorpion preparations
- At the Scorpion site
- Scorpion site investigation
- Neglect and decline
- The deepest recovery
- A new support ship
- An epiphany
- Maturity
- Senescence and retirement.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-68247-592-1
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