New Woods Hole Manned Sub taking shape

seafarer · 11-24-08, 02:56 PM

I haven't been around here in awhile, but thought folks here would find this interesting.

http://www.whoi.edu/page.do?pid=11044

Construction of a replacement for the DSV Alvin. The new sub will be capable of going to 6500 meters and have a greater payload. The support ship will be the current Alvin one, the RV Atlantis (click the "ships", upper left on the linked page), an AGOR ship, sister to UW's Thomas G. Thompson and Scripp's Roger Revelle.

Since so many institutions have adopted ROV technology in place of manned subs, this could be the last of an era of manned deep sea vehicles.

11-24-08, 02:56 PM	#1
seafarer Commodore Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 622 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	New Woods Hole Manned Sub taking shape I haven't been around here in awhile, but thought folks here would find this interesting. http://www.whoi.edu/page.do?pid=11044 Construction of a replacement for the DSV Alvin. The new sub will be capable of going to 6500 meters and have a greater payload. The support ship will be the current Alvin one, the RV Atlantis (click the "ships", upper left on the linked page), an AGOR ship, sister to UW's Thomas G. Thompson and Scripp's Roger Revelle. Since so many institutions have adopted ROV technology in place of manned subs, this could be the last of an era of manned deep sea vehicles. __________________ My Father's ship, HMCS Waskesiu (K330), sank U257 on 02/24/1944 running SHIII-1.4 with GWX2.1 and SHIV-1.5 with TMO/RSRDC/PE3.3 under MS Vista Home Premium 32-bit SP1 ACER AMD Athlon 64x2 4800+, 4GB DDR2 RAM, 400GB SATA HD Antec TruePower Trio 650watt PSU BFG GeForce 8800GT/OC 512MB VRAM, Samsung 216BW widescreen (1680x1050) LCD Last edited by seafarer; 11-24-08 at 02:58 PM.

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