Friday Deep-Sea Picture (8/17/07): Trieste

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To nice to save till tomorrow, Kevin sent along a "old" submersible chapter from Hill's The Sea from 1963. The chapter itself is authored by Dietz and covers bathyscaphs and other deep submerisbles for oceanographic research. You can read and see more of the Trieste here.

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1960: The diving submersible Trieste descends to the floor of the Mariana Trench, the deepest known place on earth. via Wired