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Submarine Tech Reaches For Deep Ocean Record

Posted by timothy on from the dropped-my-pen dept.

disco_tracy writes "US Submarines CEO Bruce Jones and his team have just announced that they've developed new technology for a submersible that could take ocean explorers 36,000 feet deep, to the bottom of the Pacific's Mariana Trench."

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  1. WOW! by wisebabo · · Score: 3, Insightful

    So I'm astonished that (they claim) they'll be able to make a FULL SPHERE of glass as opposed to some puny porthole.

    Some questions:
    A part (half?) of the sphere will have to be removed to allow people/things in and out (unlike "ecospheres") it can't be seamlessly sealed. Isn't that the most likely place of failure?

    I assume there will have to be holes to allow power, cooling/heating, communications right? Another point of failure?
    (Actually I read a story where some grad student had figured out a way of transmitting powe/communications THROUGH a submarine's metal hull using sonic waves.)

    Where in the world will they test this thing to one and a quarter times the max. pressure? (And I thought engineering standards were to one and a half max.)

  2. Crib notes by Rogerborg · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "We're going to repeat something that was already done 50 years ago, except we're be filing patents to stop anyone else doing it again. Click here to invest."

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