Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...deep-diving record went back to France last week. At 10:09 one morning, on the Atlantic 160 miles off Dakar, the French navy's bathyscaphe FNRS 3* submerged. Three hours later she settled on the bottom, 4,050 meters (13,287 ft.) down, beating Professor Auguste Piccard's record (TIME, Oct. 12) by 900 meters...
...voyage to the bottom of the Atlantic was uneventful enough to satisfy the most apprehensive bystander. Every 30 minutes, Lieut. Commander Georges Houot and Engineer Pierre-Henri Willm reported by an ultrasonic signaling device: "Tout va bien" (all is well). At 3:23 p.m. a patrolling airplane saw the yellow steel hull break above the surface...
When they reached the bottom, the officers looked around with the beams of their 1,000-watt searchlights. "We came down on a bed of slimy sand," said Engineer Willm. "We started the motors and cruised a bit, but the water quickly became troubled. At one point we sighted a loft. sharklike creature. During most of our descent we were surrounded by myriads of luminous points, and we distinguished some weird polyps with translucent tentacles...
Although the bottom of the Crimson Bineup has been changed, Haddon Tomes, Brownell, Bill Wister, John Rauh and Captain Mike Ward will play in the top five positions as usual. Paul Garrigue, Ted Rose, Guy Paschal, and Bob Brown round out the lineup...
...panicked and fled for asylum to the French legation. A raging mob broke into the building, found Sam hiding under a bed, dragged him out, literally tore him limb from limb, and paraded through Port-au-Prince with his head on a pole. Haiti's history had hit bottom. Admiral Caperton, waiting in the harbor, immediately landed two companies of marines and three of bluejackets, and the U.S. occupation began...