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Titan to Titanic A History of Deep Sea Exploration

Titan to Titanic: A History of Deep Sea Exploration

Going Deeper Underwater: The Beginning Diving is about pressure, because water has weight. A cubic metre of water weighs one metric tonne. ...
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OceanGate Tita - A Brief History of Imploding

OceanGate Titan – A Brief History of Imploding

Another Titanic Tragedy On 18 June 2023, the deep sea submarine Titan, owned and operated by OceanGate Expeditions sank gently beneath the ...
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James Bond No Time to Dive Scuba History

James Bond’s No Time to Dive Scuba History

James Bond, Thunderball and the History of the Human Torpedo Thunderball was the fourth movie in the James Bond franchise and, like ...
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Jacques Cousteau and the Race to the Deep Part 3

Jacques Cousteau and the Race to the Deep Ocean Part 3

Jacques Cousteau, Auguste Piccard and the Exploration of the Deep Ocean The Story So Far… Immediately after World War II, Swiss scientist ...
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Jacques Cousteau and the Race to the Deep Part 2

Jacques Cousteau and the Race to the Deep Part 2

Jacques Cousteau Leaves the Underwater Research Group The Story So Far… Before World War II, Swiss scientist Auguste Piccard had conceived and ...
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Bathyscaphe Race to the Deep

Bathyscaphe Race to the Deep

PART 1: The Underwater Balloon At the end of World War II, no one had been deeper than half a mile underwater, ...
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Who Invented the Aqualung?

Who Invented the Aqualung?

How the modern scuba system evolved How the modern scuba system was invented and came to be called the Aqualung is a ...
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