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Vonu's avatar

Especially since their loss of the USS Thresher occurred in an almost identical implosion during fully manned diving trials in 1963, leaving the TRIESTE bathyscaphe to confirm the results.

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Marsha McGrath's avatar

Thank you for this word, bathyscaphe, a good one!

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Vonu's avatar

That is what the TRIESTE has always been called, FWIW.

It had a fascinating history, including being purchased from its French creators by the US government, and winding up in an American naval museum.

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ViaVeritasVita's avatar

I believe you want to delete that terminal 'e'

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ViaVeritasVita's avatar

I meant terminal 'e' on bathyscaph

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Vonu's avatar

Nope, the bathyscaphe was named after Trieste, a city and seaport in northeastern Italy.

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ViaVeritasVita's avatar

I remember the Thresher. Odd that two large catastrophes happened in that year. A president being assassinated the other one.

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Vonu's avatar

Treason is not a catastrophe unless it is recognized as such by an ignorant public at large.

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