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A bathyscaphe is that submersible boat, capable of withstanding high pressures of Water and that is used when exploring the depths of the sea or the ocean.

That is, it is about small manned submarines that have autonomous propulsion and that allow the arrival to remote and deep regions of the water, generally, at the request of scientific or military purposes.

In most cases, the bathyscaphs have a remarkable technological equipment, such is the case of cameras especially capable of operating in the conditions to which the vessel is exposed and which will allow recording, measuring and even rescue objects that are on the seabed, such as: remains of ships and submarines that are sunk.

Meanwhile, the bathyscaphe is composed of a cabin similar to the one that has a bathysphere suspended under a tank that contains a liquid, normally lighter than water. gasolineMeanwhile, the propulsion is generated from motors that are powered by an electric battery.

This type of boat was created by

Auguste Piccard last century and the first unmanned and autopilot dive was made in the archipelago from Cape Verde in 1948, being able to reach a depth of 1,080 m. A few years later, in 1953, after the realization of tests and improvements in the design Initially, Piccard and his crew managed to break the mark and descended some 3,150 m. with the new bathyscaphe called Trieste. With the to run over the years, the advances and of course the distance descent grew considerably.

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