Sea arm for Bathyscaphe Trieste — A mechanical arm for the Bathyscaphe Trieste picks up a heavy stone in a demonstration of its lifting capabilities before installation on the U.S. Navy's undersea research craft. The arm is designed to recover objects weighing in excess of 200 kilograms from the ocean's depths. The Trieste holds the record for the deepest manned ocean descent, 35,800 feet (10,900 metres), made in 1960 in the Pacific near Guam Island.
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Taupo Times, Volume XIV, Issue 38, 18 May 1965, Page 8
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74Sea arm for Bathyscaphe Trieste — A mechanical arm for the Bathyscaphe Trieste picks up a heavy stone in a demonstration of its lifting capabilities before installation on the U.S. Navy's undersea research craft. The arm is designed to recover objects weighing in excess of 200 kilograms from the ocean's depths. The Trieste holds the record for the deepest manned ocean descent, 35,800 feet (10,900 metres), made in 1960 in the Pacific near Guam Island. Taupo Times, Volume XIV, Issue 38, 18 May 1965, Page 8
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