In 1957,
the Soviet Union successfully launched the world's first man-made satellite
into the Earth's lower orbit. America having lost the first heat of the race to conquer
outer space turned her attention to a new frontier.
When the Russians
sent out sputnik, the American
navy became very interested
in finding a way of getting Americans to
the deepest part of the ocean, and the deepest part of the ocean
so far as we knew at that time was down
in the Mariana's Trench. The United States Navy launched
Project Nekton one year later. A two-man submersible called the Trieste
would make a record I to deepest Innerspace
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San Diego and being prepared to be taken out
to work Kenny Marianas Trench Robert L fisher
scripts oceanographer with an obsession for trenches travel to the proposed
eyesight to create a map for the men
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refining up over a period of several months
Fisher and his crew sounded out a profile of the Mariana Trench
and identified its deepest point at ten thousand 915 meters
Challenger Deep would be the navy's destination when the Trieste Baptist
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in January 1960 young
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University of Miami chemist pointed out that the two depths differ by a ratio
similar to that between the velocity is down dirty water
nice fresh water that prompted John Lyman former scripts researcher and navy
reservist
to have the manometer checked sure enough gauge was calibrated for
freshwater
the Navy quickly corrected the record to what Fisher it first sounded out
10,000 915 meters plus or minus 10
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