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World's Deepest-Diving Unmanned Submarine Lost

Posted by timothy on from the helios-and-then-this dept.

XenonOfArcticus writes "Kaiko, the world's deepest-diving submarine was lost in in late May off Japan, after it snapped its tether as a typhoon approached. Kaiko entered the record books in 1995 by diving 36,008 feet to the bottom of the Challenger Deep - the ocean's deepest point."

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  1. Re:Recent events by ChadN · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Yeah. Without the Challenger, who knows when we can launch the Hubble telescope?

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  2. Re:Thanks by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Attach a miniature bathiosphere to the submersable. Have it large enough to contain a homing pigeon. Teach it how to drive the sub but don't let it actually control it unless the cable breaks.

    Or alternatively, you could devise a small capsule that would fire a smoke canister and signal flares upon surfacing.