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Using this camera, George Leavens, one of the free-lance photographers on the story, spent a month in and out of the water photographing submersibles. A veteran of 30 years' diving, he still finds undersea photography tricky and rigorous work. Shooting the submarine Deep Diver, he wrestled strong currents along the Gulf Stream for three hours, switching between two cameras, one with 35-mm lens...
...tons of overage torpedo warheads, mines and other obsolete ammunition, becoming in effect a floating bomb. Then she was fitted with six Sofar charges with hydrostatic fuses set to shiver her bulkheads automatically under the pressure of 4,000 ft. of water. One purpose of the planned undersea blast was to help the Pentagon's Advanced Research Projects Agency sharpen scientific techniques for detection of bootleg underground atomic tests. It was also a convenient way to dispose of munitions that become unpredictable with...
...liquid helium, hydrogen, nitrogen and oxygen; chemical-processing equipment; roller and ball bearings. TRIP, in the estimate of its discoverers, is capable of being produced commercially at prices competitive with other high-strength steels. It may some day be used in the manufacture of deep-diving descendants of such undersea vessels as the bathyscaphe and the three-man submarine Alvin, which is now exploring a canyon at the foot of the Atlantic shelf at depths of 1,000 fathoms...
Died. Vice Admiral Charles A. Lockwood, 77, commander of U.S. submarine forces in the Pacific from 1943 to 1945, who played the key role in developing tactics that enabled his undersea raiders to mount a devastating campaign against Japanese shipping, altogether sinking 1,392 vessels, more than that of all other services combined, and effectively cut Japan off from its Axis partners; of a heart attack; in Monte Sereno, Calif...
...lower cost. Beating out eleven international companies for a $32 million Madras, India, refinery contract, Progetti agreed to complete the 2½ million-ton plant in two years. The company has also pushed into the European market with a $4,000,000 pipeline in France, a $2,500,000 undersea line in Spain and a $3,000,000 factory job in West Germany...