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Alvin Submersible Retired After 40 Years Work

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the that'll-do-sub dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The legendary deep-sea manned submersible Alvin is retiring after 40 years of scientific work. Alvin has taken 12,000 people on over 4,000 dives, helping to confirm plate tectonics and continental drift. It discovered hydrothermal vents, salvaged a hydrogen bomb from the Mediterranean Sea and explored the Titanic. Alvin will be replaced by a larger vehicle that will come into service in 2008."

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  1. Simon, Theodore to continue on by egg+troll · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'll miss that rascally little Chipmunk and his whimsical adventures.

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  2. Interesting... by Stevyn · · Score: 3, Funny

    But what about Simon and Theodore?

  3. Alvin is great and all, but by Rosco+P.+Coltrane · · Score: 3, Funny

    and explored the Titanic. ...if only it could have missed the Titanic, we would have been spared some DiCaprio acting, and more importantly, 3:30 minutes of ear-pearcing Celine Dion.

    But aside from that, good work Alvin, and good retirement!

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