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To redeem the professor's reputation, a colleague (Dirk Bogarde) engages to repeat his experience. While the camera dispassionately supervises, Bogarde is led into a room impermeable to light and sound. There he is stuffed into a rubber diving suit and submerged in a tank of water warmed to...
»The sub's main seawater valves, used mostly to bring in water to cool the nuclear reactor system, had not been closing properly. So many valves were switched around during Thresher's overhaul that in one simulated dockside emergency, it took 20 minutes for the sub'...
The stunt had been done before, in 1785, but getting there was half the fun for Donald Placard, 37, and Paul E. Yost, 39, both of Sioux Falls, S. Dak. Engaged in ballyhoo for a French travel magazine, the two rising young Americans rose to about 13,000 ft., sailing...
The Silence of Death. The water was 8,400 ft. deep, and Harvey began easing down in a series of 100-ft. descents. As is normal in such dives, increasing water pressure set up a cacophony of staccato pops and grinding groans in the sub's hull. Routine messages...
* The Squalus, fresh from the Portsmouth shipyard, plunged 240 ft. to the bottom off the New Hampshire coast when water suddenly filled a compartment. Twenty-six men died in the flooded section, but others remained alive behind a watertight hatch. They sent a smoke bomb and a yellow buoy carrying...