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Hi David,
I thought it was 35,848 ft. The stuff about the wet boot
in the last quiz wasn't quite true,
but you did say to guess.
Alan
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Sent: Friday, April 23, 2010 2:20
PM
Subject: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Another trivia
fact
On January 23rd, 1960 Jacques
Piccard and Lt. Don Walsh touched down in the Trieste in the deepest point of
the Mariana trench.
It took this craft 4
hours and 48 minutes just to descend the 35,797 feet. An underwater sonar
communications system which malfunctioned earlier in the voyage began again to
operate, and at this great depth and a message took 7 seconds to travel
to the surface support ship and another 7 seconds to receive the
reply!
A manned voyage to this
depth has never since been attempted although man has returned here with the
aid of robotics.
How long were
these two occupants at this deepest depth aboard the
Trieste?
David Bartsch
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