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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 96805

U.S. Navy Bathyscaphe Trieste (1958-1963)


Close up view of the front of Trieste's pressure sphere, showing plexiglass window and instrument leads. The forward ballast silo, with metering valve on its bottom, is in the upper left.
Photo was taken circa 1958-59, shortly after Trieste was obtained by the Navy. It was released by the U.S. Navy Electronics Laboratory, San Diego, California.

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26 January 1999