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...hearings continued, so did the search for Thresher. The oceanic research vessel Atlantis II dropped cameras to see if one of a half-dozen ocean-bottom sonar "protuberances" might be the hull of Thresher. The bathyscaph Trieste, capable of plumbing depths of 35,000 feet, arrived in Boston, from where it would be shipped to seek the submarine's grave. And, for whatever reassurance it might be to men who serve aboard nuclear submarines, Rear Admiral Ralph K. James, head of the Navy Bureau of Ships, said that his experts were reviewing the design of Thresher class submarines...
...sailing a 72-ft. hot-air balloon across the English Channel in 3 hr. 45 min. Climbing out of the gondola, young Piccard, son of Balloonist Jean Felix Piccard, who died this year, and nephew of the late air-sea Explorer Auguste Piccard (inventor of the deep-diving bathyscaph), seemed to the manner born. Said he: "It was a perfect trip...
What caused the death of Thresher? To find an answer, Admiral Anderson ordered the bathyscaph Trieste from the West Coast to scan the depths and convened a 5-man board of inquiry. Perhaps the most likely theory is that a fitting gave way under immense pressure, water blasted through with such force that air compression within the submarine produced white-hot temperatures that melted metal in the instant before Thresher plunged to the muck-covered bottom-where her secret may remain forever...
...waves to a listening device on the mother ship. Part ,vay down, it conked out, and the Trieste nen drifted on down, utterly isolated from outside contact. Probably the mother ship had drifted sideways and the sonar waves were not strong enough to penetrate at an angle. When the bathyscaph reached bottom, contact was reestablished. From seven miles down, Walsh's voice reached the listeners, faint but clear...
...Space capsule. 71. The U.S. Navy sent its bathyscaph to the bottom of the Marianas Trench and found that the trench is all but one of the following: a) 1.7 miles deeper than Mount Everest is high...