BATHYSCAPHE RECORD
Craft Dives To 24,000 ft
SAN DIEGO. January 8 The bathyscaphe Trieste has established a new world’s diving record of 24,000 ft —more than fout miles and a half. Navy headquarters, announcing this today, said the dive bad taken place in the Marianas Trench yesterday. It broke the previous record of 18.600 ft by the Navy’s bathyscaphe in the same area. A noted Swiss scientist, Mr Jacques Piccard, and a United States submarine officer, Lieutenant Donald Walsh, were inside the 75-ton underwater craft. The record-breaking dive took aix hours to accomplish. The descent was achieved by filling the air tanks with water. Most of the bathyscaphe was filled with high-grade petrol, which gave it buoyancy, and the device was brought back to the surface of the ocean by the release of tons of buckshot Rescue By Nurses. — Two nurses risked their lives to save 15 blind men trapped inside a burning hospital in the Melbourne suburb of Windsor today. The blind patients, all elderly men. Were lead outside to safety.— Melbourne. January 10.
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29099, 11 January 1960, Page 9
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