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While Trieste II could reach great depths, it was little more than a spherical cabin suspended from a buoyant hull and capable of withstanding great pressures. But it was unable to rescue submariners or salvage vessels. What was needed, the Navy decided, was submersibles and ROVs able to maneuver at...
J.J.'s performance on the Titanic mission drew attention to the potential of remotely operated vehicles, which are not only supplementing the work of manned submersibles but in many cases replacing them. ROVs became popular during the 1973 oil crisis, when companies were forced to search for new petroleum reserves...
Alvin descended to a point about 450 feet from the stern and then rose to maneuver atop it before settling on the poop deck. Between two mooring line rollers, the plaque was placed to commemorate the victims and William H. Tantum IV, who encouraged efforts to locate the ship but...
The maneuver failed: the full Senate two weeks ago knocked the benefit for Unocal out of the mammoth tax bill prepared by the Senate Finance Committee. But the Unocal provision was one of only a handful of such goodies that bit the dust. Some 170 others were in the 1...
At first, as the two jet fighters came screaming over the Zambian capital of Lusaka, most townspeople paid little attention, assuming them to be air force planes on some kind of training maneuver. But then a series of sharp explosions shook the city, and Zambians suddenly realized that the black...