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Diving deeper into the world's oceans than before

• eesmith 4y ago
  To clarify the ambiguous parse, the submersible Alvin has been upgraded so is can go deeper than it ever could before. Other submersibles can go deeper. The bathyscaphe Trieste was the first to reach the deepest point of the sea, back in 1960.
  • latchkey 4y ago
    "The sub was previously rated to 4,500 meters, but the upgrade will make Alvin the only publicly-funded, human-occupied vehicle available to the U.S. scientific community for exploring the abyssal region in person."
    • eesmith 4y ago
      That's a heap of qualifiers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep-submergence_vehicle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep-submergence_vehicle lists examples when at least one of those qualifiers is removed. Why isn't the Japanese DSV Shinkai 6500 available to the U.S. scientific community? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DSV_Shinkai_6500 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DSV_Shinkai_6500 and https://www.jamstec.go.jp/e/about/equipment/ships/shinkai6500.html https://www.jamstec.go.jp/e/about/equipment/ships/shinkai650... . It can also dive to 6,500 meters.
• rgovostes 4y ago
  I was lucky enough to be onboard for some of the certification cruise. It is incredible how resourceful the team can be while at sea with a problem to debug and a dive scheduled for 8 am the next morning. They kept a blog throughout the certification process: https://ndsf.whoi.edu/category/alvin-6500/page/6/ https://ndsf.whoi.edu/category/alvin-6500/page/6/ We're hiring engineers of various stripes: https://careers-whoi.icims.com/jobs/search?ss=1&searchCategory=8723 https://careers-whoi.icims.com/jobs/search?ss=1&searchCatego...