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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 ba
by 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 agoThat'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.