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...strange creature of the deep was the Reynolds Metals Co.'s Aluminaut, a man-made sea monster that is helping scientists to unlock the secrets of the sea. On its mission off Florida, it discovered a 100-mile by 150-mile area of -'pavement" apparently swept clean by Gulf Stream currents. Analysis of the 600 Ibs. of ore that Aluminaut brought to the surface indicated that most of the pavement below consisted of a good grade of manganese oxide that might some day be mined commercially...
...this rising interest in the potential of the seas that has in the past few years spawned the Aluminaut and newer and even more bizarre and sophisticated undersea craft that can carry men into the ocean depths and sustain them there for days and even weeks...
...Lockheed's Deep Quest is the most sophisticated of the new submersibles, combining Aluminaut's size and ability to descend to great depths with Deep Diver's capability of discharging and retrieving underwater divers. The 40-ft., 50-ton craft can operate at a depth of 8,000 ft. with a crew of four and is designed to carry a Cachalot-type chamber that can accommodate four additional divers in its stern compartment. It uses spacecraftlike water-jet thrusters to hover in place and can tilt itself some 30° fore and aft and 10° sideways...
Stranger yet to Palomares fishermen were the Jules Verne trawling capsules imported by the Navy's 18-ship, 2,200-man recovery task force under "Wild Bill" Guest, 52. Among the most sophisticated hardware in his far-out fleet were the civilian-manned, deep-diving research subs Aluminaut and Alvin. It was Alvin's two crewmen who first found the wayward nuke last month, wrapped in its grey parachute 2,500 ft. down on a 70° slope. But Alvin proved a ham-handed retriever. On its first try at getting a line around the bomb...
...which SPECTRE's flippered villains so easily recovered the "Thunderball" of James Bond's latest cinematic adventure. The real thing was far harder to lift. In order to recover the bomb, American officials called on devices that even Ian Fleming had never conceived: the whale-shaped Aluminaut (TIME, Sept. 11, 1964), a 51-ft., three-man sub devised by General Dynamics Corp. to probe 17,000 ft. beneath the sea's surface, and a 22-ft. two-man U.S. Navy sub named the Alvin, which can work as deep...