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1100‐Meter Dive in the Bathyscaph Trieste
Author(s) -
DIETZ ROBERT S.
Publication year - 1959
Publication title -
limnology and oceanography
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.7
H-Index - 197
eISSN - 1939-5590
pISSN - 0024-3590
DOI - 10.4319/lo.1959.4.1.0094
Subject(s) - metre , oceanography , meteorology , environmental science , geology , geography , physics , astronomy
This paper describes a dive made in the bathyscaph trieste on July 3, 1957, with the writer as the scientific observer and Jaques Piccard as the pilot. This was the fifth dive of a series of twenty‐eight dives made during 1957 and sponsored by the U. S. Office of Naval Research. The dive lasted 2 hours and 31 minutes, with 36 minutes spent on the bottom.