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At random: USS SKATE and USS SEADRAGON, after affecting a historic rendezvous under the ice, surfaced together at the North Pole through an opening in the ice on August 1962. What really happened: We didn't surface together, Skate surfaced first. Then we (Seadragon) fired yellow flares forward and aft so Skate could tell us how we were lined up. Remember, under-ice was primitive in these days. Skate called back down rapidly that one flare surfaced on her starboard side and the other to port. She requested we reposition before vertical surfacing. We did. - Coyote (Owen Carlson)

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Don Gentry

Posted 2008-11-02 10:36 AM (#21063)

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Subject: Piccard dead at 82

As a kid I was always facinated with the trench dive...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7704551.stm

Ralph Luther

Posted 2008-11-02 10:48 AM (#21064 - in reply to #21063)

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Subject: RE: Piccard dead at 82

It's always sad to see our pioneers depart.

Bill Linne

Posted 2008-11-03 5:48 AM (#21083 - in reply to #21063)

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He definitely lead an interesting life!

One minor nit, Don, the story says he was 86, not 82. I did not see a bio, so I don't really know one way or the other . . .

chiefjoe

Posted 2008-11-03 7:09 AM (#21086 - in reply to #21063)

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Subject: RE: Piccard dead at 82

If my memory serves me, the sphere was deformed from one dive and they knew the powers that be would never allow a dive when it was discovered. They then took it to the record depth and after that dive it was never allowed to dive again.

They had B...s

I visited the Trieste and I don't know how someone with b...s that size fit in the sphere.

Joe P

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