DSV Alvin
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Alvin is a crewed deep-ocean research submersible owned by the United States Navy and operated by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution of Woods Hole, Massachusetts. The original vehicle was built
Alvin in 1978, a year after first exploring hydrothermal vents. The rack hanging at the bow holds sample containers.
Emergency separation
General layout
The sunken Alvin on the ocean bottom in June 1969, photographed by USNS Mizar (T-AGOR-11)
Wreck of the Titanic
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The wreck of the British ocean liner RMS Titanic lies at a depth of about 12,500 feet, about 325 nautical miles south-southeast off the coast of Newfoundland, Canada. It lies in two main pieces about
DSV Alvin
…two scientists and a pilot, observing the lifeforms that must cope with super-pressures and move about in total darkness, as well as exploring the wreck of Titanic. Research conducted by Alvin has been featured in nearly 2,000 scientific papers. Alvin was designed as a replacement for bathyscaphes and other less…
The Titanic's bow in June 2004
The Titanic surfacing on a poster publicising the film Raise the Titanic. The scene depicted would not have been physically possible.
The partly collapsed bathroom of Captain Edward Smith, with the bathtub filled with rusticles