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    A bathyscaphe (/ˈbæθɪˌskeɪf, -ˌskæf/) is a free-diving, self-propelled deep-sea submersible, consisting of a crew cabin similar to a Bathysphere, but...
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    Trieste is a Swiss-designed, Italian-built deep-diving research bathyscaphe. In 1960, it became the first crewed vessel to reach the bottom of Challenger...
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    Striver (Fen-Dou-Zhe; Chinese: 奋斗者) bathyscaphe is a type of deep-submergence vehicle built in the People's Republic of China (PRC). It was built by China...
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    allow personnel ingress and egress via a manhole. Strictly speaking, bathyscaphes are not submarines because they have minimal mobility and are built like...
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  • The Sea Pole (Hai Ji, or Chinese: 海极) class bathyscaphe is a class of bathyscaphe of the People's Republic of China (PRC). They are capable of diving...
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    (DSV-1) was the successor to Trieste – the United States Navy's first bathyscaphe purchased from its Swiss designers. The original Trieste design was heavily...
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    DSV Alvin (redirect from Bathyscaphe Alvin)
    Pole-class bathyscaphe – Chinese bathyscaphe class Dragon class bathyscaphe – Chinese bathyscaphe class Harmony class bathyscaphe – Chinese bathyscaphe class...
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  • Deep Sea Warrior (Shen-Hai-Yong-Shi, or 深海勇士 in Chinese) bathyscaphe is a type of very little known deep-submergence vehicle built in the People’s Republic...
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  • The Rainbowfish class bathyscaphe is a Chinese deep submergence vehicle under development in 2015 and originally scheduled to enter service in 2019, but...
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    The FNRS-2 was the first bathyscaphe. It was created by Auguste Piccard. Work started in 1937 but was interrupted by World War II. The deep-diving submarine...
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    The bathyscaphe Archimède is a deep diving research submersible of the French Navy. It used 42,000 US gallons (160,000 L) of hexane as the gasoline buoyancy...
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    crewed descent by Swiss-designed, Italian-built, United States Navy-owned bathyscaphe Trieste, which reached the bottom at 1:06 pm on 23 January 1960, with...
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    submersible Archimède – French Navy bathyscaphe FNRS-2 – First bathyscaphe FNRS-3 – Bathyscaphe of the French Navy Bathyscaphe – Free-diving self-propelled deep-sea...
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    DSRVs Osprey class submersibles Sea Pole class bathyscaphe Dragon class bathyscaphe Harmony class bathyscaphe Mobile diving bell QSZ-II submersible Blotniak...
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    Piccard and United States Navy Lieutenant Donald Walsh descended in the bathyscaphe Trieste into the deepest part of the world's oceans, the Mariana Trench...
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  • Friuli-Venezia Giulia Region of Italy Trieste (bathyscaphe), a 1953 deep-sea submersible Trieste II (Bathyscaphe) 101st Motorized Division "Trieste", an infantry...
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    technique used in balloons for developing a submersible vehicle, the bathyscaphe. Jacques initially started out his career by teaching economics at University...
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    designed to replace older DSV, such as the less maneuverable Trieste-class bathyscaphes. Turtle spent her career as a unit of the U.S. Navy's Submarine Development...
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  • There have been two US Navy ships called Trieste: (DSV-0) Bathyscaphe Trieste (DSV-1) Bathyscaphe Trieste II There was also reference to a starship USS Trieste...
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    The FNRS-3 or FNRS III is a bathyscaphe of the French Navy. It is currently preserved at Toulon. She set world depth records, competing against a more...
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  • Mission: Space in Epcot Center, Orlando, Florida Bathyscaphe Trieste II, also known as X-2, the US Navy bathyscaphe based on the Trieste HMS X2, a Royal Navy...
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    Ocean near Guam that ended with the United States Navy-owned research bathyscaphe Trieste entering the Challenger Deep, the deepest surveyed point in the...
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    Alvin American submarine NR-1 Bathyscaphe Archimède FNRS-2 FNRS-3 Harmony class bathyscaphe Sea Pole-class bathyscaphe Trieste II Deepsea Challenger Ictineu...
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    1913 – 7 August 1977) was a French naval officer and commander of a bathyscaphe unit. He was born in Paris and educated at the Prytanée militaire military...
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    Stratosphere. Piccard was also known for his invention of the first bathyscaphe, FNRS-2, with which he made a number of unmanned dives in 1948 to explore...
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  • 1969[citation needed] with the French Navy as an officer at the Groupe des Bathyscaphes headed by Captain Georges Houot. In 1985, Jean-Louis Michel (along with...
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    supersedes gasoline-filled tanks for flotation as used in the historic bathyscaphe Trieste. Allum also built many innovations, necessary to overcome the...
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    of over 7,000 metres (23,000 ft), developed from the Sea Pole-class bathyscaphe. It has the second-greatest depth range of any crewed research vehicle...
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    such as the Alicia submarine's viewing sphere and the window of the bathyscaphe Trieste. PMMA is used in the lenses of exterior lights of automobiles...
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    bathyscaphe, the FNRS-2, during the 1949 expedition to Dakar. Thanks to this rescue, the French Navy was able to reuse the sphere of the bathyscaphe to...
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