Opening the Great Depths

Opening the Great Depths
Author :
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
Total Pages : 261
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781682475928
ISBN-13 : 1682475921
Rating : 4/5 (921 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Opening the Great Depths by : Norman C Polmar

Download or read book Opening the Great Depths written by Norman C Polmar and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2021-05-15 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Developed by French physicist Auguste Piccard and his son Jacques, the bathyscaph Trieste was a scientific marvel that allowed unprecedented scientific, technical, and military feats in the ocean depths. France and the United States both acquired and subsequently developed variants of the original bathyscaph. While both France and the United States employed the bathyscaph as a tool for scientific investigation of the deepest ocean depths, the U.S. Navy developed and employed the Trieste for military missions as well. From its earliest years, participants in the Trieste program realized that they were making history, blazing a trail into previously unexplored and unexploited depths, developing new capabilities and opening a new frontier. Comparisons with developments in space and the space-race between the United States and the Soviet Union often were made concerning the Trieste program and contemporary developments in undersea technologies and capabilities. The Trieste opened the entire oceans to exploration, exploitation, and operations. The bathyscaph was a first-generation system, a "Model-T" that spawned an entirely new industry and encouraged new concepts for deep-ocean naval operations. Advances in deep-sea technologies lacked the "gee-whiz" factor of the concurrent space race, but were highly significant in the development of new technology, new knowledge, and new military capabilities. Opening the Great Depths is the story of the three Trieste deep-ocean vehicles, their officers and enlisted men, and the civilians, often told in their own words, documenting for the first time the earliest years of humanity's probing into Earth's final frontier.


Opening the Great Depths Related Books

Opening the Great Depths
Language: en
Pages: 261
Authors: Norman C Polmar
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-05-15 - Publisher: Naval Institute Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Developed by French physicist Auguste Piccard and his son Jacques, the bathyscaph Trieste was a scientific marvel that allowed unprecedented scientific, technic
Out of the Depths
Language: en
Pages: 236
Authors: Ivone Gebara
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: - Publisher: Fortress Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Translated by Ann Patrick Ware Introduces a perspective on evil and salvation to address "the evil women do, " the evil they suffer, and women's redemptive expe
Geological Survey Circular
Language: en
Pages: 496
Authors:
Categories: Geology
Type: BOOK - Published: 1967 - Publisher:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The Initiation, Propagation, and Arrest of Joints and Other Fractures
Language: en
Pages: 340
Authors: John W. Cosgrove
Categories: Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004 - Publisher: Geological Society of London

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This volume is a state of the art look at our understanding of joint development in the crust. Answers are provided for such questions as the mechanisms by whic
Engineering and Mining Journal
Language: en
Pages: 464
Authors:
Categories: Engineering
Type: BOOK - Published: 1885 - Publisher:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK