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爻賮賷賳丞 丕賱兀毓賲丕賯: 侑 兀賲賷丕賱 賮賷 賯丕毓 丕賱亘丨乇
342 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1961
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July 3, 2024
Shame this is out of print. I had to work extremely hard to find this book at a reasonable price. I snagged mine from a library sell off online sale, where most normal copies are $150 plus. It should be published digitally at least, while the topic is niche, it鈥檚 an incredible story of scientific exploration, marine engineering, and record breaking.
The cool collected nature of Piccard comes across while he assembles his crew fellow oceanographers, engineers, biologists and divers is his cool collected mood during extreme pressure and unexplored territory.
The start of the book is the only slow part, where Piccard goes around fundraising and politicking to obtain necessary funding from world governments and eventually the US Navy.
The deepest dives are explained matter of factly by the two authors, even when the situations are quite intense. Leakes, pressure explosions, and essential equipment malfunctions.
All of this was achieved around 1960! The technology was limited and there were still some complete scientific and geographical unknowns hiding in the ocean.
The book has a stark warning, had the engineers of Oceangate read this carefully, of can like and fiberglass deep see craft would deteriorate, as Piccard already warned an epoxy globe was the safest way to develop the deepest of deep sea craft.
The cool collected nature of Piccard comes across while he assembles his crew fellow oceanographers, engineers, biologists and divers is his cool collected mood during extreme pressure and unexplored territory.
The start of the book is the only slow part, where Piccard goes around fundraising and politicking to obtain necessary funding from world governments and eventually the US Navy.
The deepest dives are explained matter of factly by the two authors, even when the situations are quite intense. Leakes, pressure explosions, and essential equipment malfunctions.
All of this was achieved around 1960! The technology was limited and there were still some complete scientific and geographical unknowns hiding in the ocean.
The book has a stark warning, had the engineers of Oceangate read this carefully, of can like and fiberglass deep see craft would deteriorate, as Piccard already warned an epoxy globe was the safest way to develop the deepest of deep sea craft.
June 11, 2017
What an adventure!
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