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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. No remote control? by Sherloqq · · Score: -1, Troll

    I don't know anything about this submarine (though I did RTFA), so I'm puzzled by its design. You mean to tell me that these things aren't made to be radio-controlled? That once the cable connecting it to the mother ship is cut, it's bye-bye Charlie? That's silly for a multi-million dollar piece of equipment. These folks should learn from NASA about redundant control / communication systems.

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