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Divers dream of beating Bill Murphy, yet there are few in the league who have a chance. It makes for an odd situation to win so young and so well. You are expected to win all the time. When you lose it's an upset; when you win it's...
> The Perry-Link Deep Diver, a 22-ft., 8¼-ton submersible that can operate at a depth of 1,350 ft. for as long as twelve hours, moving up, down, forward, backward and sideways. It has a forward pilot's compartment and a separately pressured divers' compartment...
> Westinghouse's Cachalot consists of a pressurized "dormitory" and a diving bell that is lowered from the side of a barge to as far as 600 ft. below the surface, carrying divers in a pressurized chamber. Under water, the divers can emerge through a bottom hatch, work outside from...
> 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...
More complex submersibles are on the way. Lockheed is building a DSRV, or Deep Submergence Rescue Vehicle, which will operate at depths as great as 20,000 ft. and be equipped with a pressure chamber large enough to handle four divers. DSRV can be flown to the site of distressed...