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Wednesday, March 4 CBS REPORTS (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). *New techniques and safety measures in oceanographic exploration, derived from the search for the wreck of the nuclear-powered submarine Thresher, which sank last April...
...string of debris on the bottom. The pictures picked out hundreds of pieces of twisted metal, a shredded copper cable, a half-pint milk carton standing peacefully right side up, and a white Navy coffee mug lying on its side. Nothing has yet been identified conclusively as coming from Thresher, but everything is clean and new-looking, and the metal is untarnished...
...University's Lament Geological Observatory, dredged up 15 envelopes of gaskets, and the Atlantis found two broken pieces of battery plates. Both gaskets and plates are almost certain to have come from the lost sub. Latest pictures from Conrad show an air bottle of a type used on Thresher and a broken piece of pipe* that was probably once a part of the sub's internal plumbing...
Trieste on Call. The Navy is reasonably sure by now that Thresher lies close by, under a small area of ocean marked by bright orange buoys. Hopefully, the Trieste will soon photograph the actual wreck. The depth will be moderate for the Trieste, which has already cruised to the bottom of the Marianas Trench off Guam, 35,800 ft. down, but the strong currents off Cape Cod are a serious threat. Though proof against water pressure in the deepest ocean, Trieste has feeble propulsion. She can creep only four or five miles at about 1.4 m.p.h.; during the 45 minutes...
...Thresher eludes both Trieste and the oceanographers' instruments, the Navy has one more ace up its gold-braided sleeve. It has worked out a scheme for scuttling the decommissioned submarine Toro near the place where Thresher sank. As Toro settles through the water followed by sonar beams, she will tell how the currents affect a sinking submarine. Her crushed hulk lying on the bottom, its position pinpointed, will tell the dogged Navy, as it continues its search, what Thresher should look like to oceanographic instruments...