Bathyscaphe Triest: The Quest to Actually Dive 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
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- Опубликовано: 6 сен 2024
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I feel like now is a GREAT time for RUclips to re-recommend this to everyone
Certainly a better way to build a deep submersible
Why what's been going on? I've been living under a rock, under the sea.
@@MTG69 Nothing. It’s just the flavor of the month. We all love submarines now
@@thetowndrunk988good one
Looks like it just did ;)
When the Titan disaster happened, I immediately thought of Trieste. Because I once read a book about it. Among other things, how carefully Piccard chose the steel, tested samples and consulted with metalworking engineers. Did all the science right.
It's retired and on display here in DC at the NMUSN inside the Navy Yard. It's beside Alvin, another more recent DSV that is at ground level where you can look inside the titanium passenger sphere.
Sending people down makes no sense anymore , we can send in camera subs with 360° views , that can dive faster and stay under longer than humans .
4 h down 4 h up , in a room thats smaller than my car , has no seats , with a bucket as toilet , pissing in bottles , yeah really appealing experience , no thanks .
WWII tech > cheap corporate shortcuts
@@pete_lindYou're absolutely correct but it's about the adventure!
Not to mention how meticulously and incrementally they worked towards their goal.
Funny story Bertrand Piccard once told me:
When the US paid the expolorations they wanted to have the American flag on the Bathyscaphe Trieste and of course it had to be on top of the Swiss flag.. Jaques Piccard agreed and after they set the new record he told the officials that the Swiss flag was deeper ;)
☠
Thanks for the info as I didn't know about this Swiss flag, lol...
That's a great story!
Reminded me of another where a USN ship was docked next to a Royal Navy ship and the US Sailor shouts to the British guy, "How's it feel to be in a second largest Navy?"
To which the Brit goes, "It's great! How's it feel to be in the second best?"
@@chrislong3938 to which the American goes: idk how bout you tell us 🥱🦅🇺🇸
Good thing he is Swiss no one cared 🥱😏
The window cracking while going deeper into the ocean must be one of the most terrifying things you could experience.
Idk id probably be spooked at first then giggle a bit. These men knew death could come within a second and not even feel the pain. Heart racing yes but terrifying idk. People jump out of planes of course, some without shoots mid fall. But yeah personally some things are beyond compression to specify.
There's a great quote from James Cameron's documentary about diving down to Challenger Deep: "If you hear a crack, then you might as well keep going. It's the one you don't hear that gets you." In other words, if the crack actually let water in, then anyone on board would be crushed within milliseconds--not enough time to actually register the noise. Hearing a cracking window means that you haven't been crushed, meaning the crack isn't fatal.
Wasn’t exactly a window but close enough
I could think of something a little bit worse than that... Like the pressure Hull imploding at 20,000 ft below the sea😢😢
If you hear it crack, smile. You'd be dead before you heard it if it broke.
*Common misconception:* the vessel in Jules Verne's novel never dives to a depth of anywhere near 20k leagues. If I remember correctly, it never even goes further than just a couple hundred meters. The 20k leagues from the title refers to the distance of its transoceanic voyage around the world.
It's been a while, but I remember it that way as well.
@@LymanPhillips In the English speaking world a league was 3 nautical miles or 3.42 land miles.
Based on the diameter of the earth google gave me the maximum theoretical depth of a ocean would be 1146 leagues. And that would be with an pit clear down to the core. Might get a bit warm on the way down too.
yep they traveled 20kl underwater, wich can be misunderstood easily!
I have a hard time understanding how someone could know the title and encounter the myths of "seven league boots" and not get curious how far a league is/ I looked it up when I was 7, which was easy to do long before there was an internet.
I have a much harder time understanding how neither Simon nor anyone else on the staff looked that up and realized that it couldn't have meant depth.
Gigachad Bathyscape Triest vs Virgin Titan submersible
Auguste Piccard was the real life model for Professor Calculus in Hergé's Adventures of Tintin. Hergé used to sketch passers bye in the street as he sat outside a cafe, Piccard held a teaching appointment in Brussels and Hergé spotted him as he walked bye on his way to work.
At 1:46 with basket weave crash helmet, he looks not entirely hinged.
Those wicker crash helmets are fabulous!
I love the way Herget’ drew himself into the scenes the way Alfred Hitchcock did cameos in his films.
I miss the days when Inventors use to look like Bond villains
Dr. Evil!
Blame the james bond franchise for that, clued everyone in and they started dressing like normal people lol
or should that read "Bond villains look like inventors"??
@@18robsmith I guess we'll never know, unless our Savoir makes a video about it..
Kind of related, I notice that the scientists of the Manhattan Project were sharp dressers, even when working with dangerous materials.
Greetings from Trieste!!!! we are still quite proud of the vessels once we built. Today our shipyard con only perform maintence work, but in the past many amazing ship were built here.
Nice video, good work....and thanks a lot!!!!
Yeah and it should be exhibited in your city or in Switzerland. Certainly not in a museum in the US.
@@The_real_Arovorit's not in a museum. It's in the parking lot of a museum 😂
@@timothy468 really? where?
@@pierfrancescocusati9619 Keyport washington state, United States
The crack wasn't in the crew sphere window, but of the window in tunnel that connected to the sphere to the top of the DSV. Also recently studies have shown that it may well be possible for some types of fish to live at the Challenger Deep. Just not all the time, meaning they more than likely drift with the current to deepest parts for short periods looking for food on the bottom. So these fish are basically drifting up and down the trench, only spending hours at most at its deepest parts.
I am a retired machinist and welder. Over the decades I have fabricated many mechanical devices and repaired countless machines built during the 1940's.
I can attest that overbuilt is underrated
Your 2 year old video, and that amazing adventure 60 years ago have both held up well. Glad you're getting well deserved exposure for this, as it is giving many people a method to compare good scientific progress with some alternative adventures that didn't work out as well.
I remember this in school in the 6th grade in the 60s. My teacher was heavily into science and he got a study film that included the Trieste. I found it fascinating.
Watching this after "Titan" - a carbon-fiber submersible built by a company called OceanGate - had imploded on it's way towards the wreck of Titanic, killing the company's safety-ignoring CEO and 4 other people with him. RIP in Peace.
rip is rest in peace. so rest in peace in peace? lmao
I really thought you would have done a video on James Cameron's dive down, and the years of design and testing that was required to achieve it. Learning the details of it gave me more respect for him. I originally thought he just hired some guys to build him a sub to do some PR stunt with. But he did it out of genuine personal curiosity, and he did a lot of the work himself. He knows a lot more than I gave him credit for.
??? These people did the same thing decades ago… for the love of it and the challenge. James Cameron is just a rich idiot with a huge ego.
The Piccards are an amazing family. His son flew around the world in a completely solar powered airplane.
Yes Jean-Luc Picard continued that legacy: he went to space: the final frontier, explored strange new worlds; sought out new life and new civilizations; and boldly went where no man has gone before.
Bertrand was also half of the crew of Breitling Orbiter 3 the first balloon to circumnavigate the earth!
@@sushimamba4281
Did he though?
All I remember from TNG is the Enterprise transporting diplomats,
patroling the neutral zone,
settelling boarder disputes or going to Risa.
And one was captain of a famous star ship
If I'd been in there when that window crack there would have definitely been a leak develop. A small puddle of yellow fluid at the bottom of the sphere
Yep, me too. And it would have started to become really stinky, cause I would have crapped my pants as well, LOL 😂😂😂
don't worry by the time you would have reacted you would have already been imploded
Always wear your brown pants
I got jumpscared just having it explained to me in the video.
@@nobodyimportant69 Yup...the colour of adrenaline is...brown!!
The Piccard familly is still doing this kind of stuff : you may have heard of solar impulse, and one of the pilots was the son or the grand son (I don't remember) of the guy in this video
I just watched that on Nova a few days ago very interesting.
Forgot about that! Yep, Bertrand Piccard, son of Jacques Piccard.
It's no wonder Jean Luc Picard from Star Trek was named after them.
Idea for a Megaprojects video; the human genome project, a fascinating science project
Yes
I definitely want to see a megaprojects on this!
yeah
I had a subject in cytogenetics l amd i always read about HGP.
human instrumentality project
[Ahem] 20,000 leagues is ~70,000 miles. Jules Verne's title refers to the total distance traveled by the Nautilus while submerged--not how deep it went.
Thank you for this. I have been correcting people who get leagues and fathoms mixed up for decades.
$ units '20000 leagues' 'miles'
* 60000
Thank you for the info
"Ackshualllyyyyy...."
@@GordanCable None of this crap is a unit. We use SI in this century.
Friday 6/2023: Absolutely Excellent! I was 8 years old at the time and I remember the Triest very well. It's a shame that this past Sunday we lost the "Titan" submersible at the Titanic wreck site with 5 souls on board. Implosion. The captain of the submersible and CEO of the company that built the Titan was the husband of the Great Great Granddaughter of Ida and Isidor Straus, both of whom died on the Titanic. She now has 3 relatives at the Titanic wreck. A sad loss. Titanic claims 5 more souls. RIP Titan Crew. (a "bad omen" name for that craft). Triest was remarkable and well built. Thank You once again Simon.
Watching this righy after watching a video about the Titan only magnifies the obsurdity of the Titan's engineering. It was made to fail basically.
When I was a kid I saw that iconic picture of the Trieste and I thought the stripey tank was the part that people were inside. When I found out it was just the little bubble I was both terrified and impressed.
3:03 The Trieste Batyscaph took the name of the city of Trieste, Italy, but it was not entirely built there. The merger of the Hull and the Deep Sea "Sphere" took place in the shipyard of Castellammare di Stabia, in southern Italy. Other historical vessels like the Amerigo Vespucci, and recently in 2019, another "Trieste" as an LHD Carrier were built there.
And the original batysphere (not the Krupp one) was built in Terni steelworks, from two single cast emispheres then welded together (that's why there is "Terni" written on it).
After being replaced by the Krupp one it was refurbished and reused in the Trieste II.
Megaproject suggestion: The fortified boundries of the Roman Empire called 'Limes'; the origin of our word 'limit'. I live a couple of miles away from the Hessian section of the Limes Germanicus. The ditch/mound is clearly visible still, as well as the rubble of the little forts every couple of hundred meters.
Great suggestion! Might be a bit biased since I live a few miles from the Upper German Limes in Rhineland-Palatinate lol
Surely the attribution is backwards. Limen is Latin for boundary or threshold.
@Danny Archer Actually, the construction on the section where I live wasn't in the least defensive. It was a simple pallisade with the terrain cleared in front of it and gaps with watch-towers every 200m with 7 squaddies in each. If a hostile group of barbarians approached, there was a system to alert cavalry units stationed in so-called castells every few kilometers. Hadrian's Wall was another matter, because the Picts had a nasty habit of raiding. The Germans were more into trading. My ilk were Irish BTW :O)
@Danny Archer No probs. TBH, apart from my genetics, I'm about as Irish as I am German in terms of behaviour and attitude. They make better beer and sausage here... :O)
That's a good call. I've visited the Hadrian's wall area a few times and the remaining infrastructure is still impressive nearly 2 millennia later.
Don't forget Dethklok - they recorded an album in the Mariana Trench
Murmaider murmaider
@@tbagginsesq8169
There are no finger prints deep underwater 😉
Lars : check
@@antlerking69 nothing to tie you onto a crime
Brutal
5:45 I love how the Navy bought the thing for an exorbitant price and then quickly turned around and replaced nearly everything on it with new stuff lol
They bought it to study the design, took it apart to understand how it worked and put it back together modifing it to fit their needs.
But I believe in the end they basically reused every single part of it and simply added more. The original Terni made batysphere for example was reused in the Trieste II.
Nope, both wrong, the only thing that was refitted was the bathysphere, and it was produced in Germany. The navy basically did nothing than buy it an claim it as their own achievement.
@@The_real_Arovor The original batysphere was built in Terni, near Naples, and it was reused in the Trieste II.
The second batysphere was built by Krupp (in Germany but no idea where exactly) and it replaced the original one on the Trieste I to allow for greater depths (such as the Mariana trench).
Google should send Google Map guys to scan the oceans floor...
he'd better make sure his tire pressure is up to snuff
Even better... Send out the google self driving car to do it. Just waterproof the electrics, no people needed, so no pressurized hulls needed, just put chunky tires on it and send it on it's way :D :D :D
They can easily fund deep sea submarines as they have hundreds of billions in spare cash laying around.
id actually love to see that in like vr or something
@@wrightmf no ad revenue to be had by mapping the ocean floor
Suggestion for Geographics:Zone Rouge of France! A hostile forbidden zone of France in the aftermath of W.W 1. A beautiful green country side turned deadly.
Picard didn't forget his essential pack of Earl Grey tea.
make it so ...
Somewhere at the back of my brain there a vague memory that Star Trek Picard was named in honour of bathyscaphe Picard.
Although it wouldn't be the first time I remembered something that definitely didn't happen.
Earl Grey, hot
@@bimblinghill Yes Captain Picard is a descendant, but in the movie he was depressed because the son of his brother died and he has no children, so the Picard line stopped. Or something like that.
Great episode. Gene Roddenberry named Jean Luc Piccard after Jacques Piccard who was also my third cousin. So again great episode.
1:10 - Chapter 1 - Bathyscaphes
3:05 - Chapter 2 - Trieste
5:10 - Chapter 3 - Early career
5:45 - Chapter 4 - Project nexton
8:50 - Chapter 5 - Challenger deep
11:05 - Chapter 6 - Where nobody has gone before
I remember reading about this in a book my parents got me when I was a kid and thinking how incredible it must have been to be the first to be at that depth. As an adult I still feel that way though now I know how brave those guys were.
I was in the USN in the early’60’s. I went through ‘Scuba School’ @ NEL and Trieste was pointed out to me. This was shortly after the record dive. I really enjoyed this video. Brought back fond memories. Thank you Simon.
It's still a balloon, it just works in water instead of in air.
Fun fact: These things are actually much more dangerous on the surface than at the bottom of the ocean since they are built to survive massive pressure, they are not built to survive even gentle waves for very long. The hull of the float has a tendency to shake itself apart like an overamped Energizer bunny.
They replaced the sphere and the float and almost all of the other hardware. But it's still the "Triest".
"How do we get to the bottom of the ocean?"
"We are going to build a balloon; but one that flies under water."
"Well, you look like a supervillain, so you probably know what you are talking about."
Came here on 6/22/2023 because 5 men in carbon fiber submersible driven by a game controller imploded on the way down to see the Titanic.
I knew about Trieste since I was a kid, but I thought they went there in the 90s! The fact that they went there in 1960, is frigging mind-blowing!
If they only would have named the Submarine "Enterprise".....
Glad they didn't. Plus this dive pre-dated Star Trek by five years or so.
Oh don't be a buzz kill! I was just making a joke.
The real name is much better.
It would indeed make sure 'that history never forgets the name . . . Enterprise'.
Is anyone else wondering why Picard is posing with his kids wearing a basket on his head? (1:47)
No. Have you never had a picture taken of you whilst just having fun?
I'm guessing he just liked to goof around with this kids.
Early Belgian crash helmets?
Simon, the probability that the ship transporting the Trieste to Mariana Trench would be the Santa Mariana was actually 1 in 4. The Navy needed a ship that could carry both the cargo and the personnel needed for the operation. The company operating in the Pacific that offered this possibility was Grace Line who had 4 cargo/passenger ships, all named Santa M(something), including the Santa Mariana.
As a kid, the story of Trieste fascinated me as I’d never considered water could be so difficult. Tries to was in the same category as the Voyager probes and the Space Shuttles of things I could name and describe from an early age.
Just an anal retentive fun fact. Jules Vernes' book, "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" was not a reference to depth. But rather, distance traveled under the sea.
That would be 82852 mile straight down and the center of the earth is only 3960 miles straight down.
The greatest depth Verne reported the Nautilus reaching was 16,000 metres, still 5000 deeper than Trieste reached.
S Christy
Verne used a metric league, equal to 4km, so 20,000 leagues is 80,000km or about 50,000 miles.
Finally! Someone who understands this!! 20,000 leagues is 60,000 miles. It is impossible to go that deep on Earth.
It’s crazy to think that 90% of this submersible is equipment to get the researchers where they wanted to go , and only just the sphere at the bottom is meant to hold people.. when you compare the amount of equipment relative to how many people trieste can hold compared to the amount of equipment onboard titan and how many people IT could hold, it’s no wonder it imploded
It's similar to rockets, 90% volume is fuel and oxydiser, rest is payload. Strange how 2 different environments need similar solutions
Trieste could have included a second sphere if they wanted, just expand the float a little... but the owner of OceanGate wanted to make a totally new design because he felt he was smarter than everyone else.
Our thoughs go with their families.
What up Simon? You're on a roll. Hope you're doing well mate.
yea, this video was full of small mistakes....
but the main one being the title - trieste written wrong, and simon has talked about the 20 000 leagues common misconception before.
the editor-uploader did not give a f about this video.
@@mjfan653 Hahaha right
Thank you Mr. Piccard.
Only if OceanGate CEO researched more or would've just replicated the Bathyscaphe Trieste submersible.
Or even Mir 1 and Mir 2 submersibles if you're at it. These two Russian submersibles (now decommissioned) were designed such that they can go deeper than the depth at which the Titanic is now. Also, it was used by James Cameron to explore the Titanic's surroundings as well as look inside the Titanic using tethered bots. OR, a submersible called DSV Limiting Factor, which was lab tested to dive deeper than the deepest place on the earth. But then DSV Limiting Factor, which is still in service, costed like 37 million dollars, far more than OceanGate's Titan may have costed.
As a former submariner I personally would love to see some more submarine videos, and they would totally fit the Cold War theme.
I would be thrilled if you would do an episode on the Blue Ridge Parkway. Truly an amazing road! Its lowest point is just over 400 feet above sea level, and its highest point passes within sight of the highest point east of the Mississippi. It would be neat to hear more about!
Also, I would love to see a sideprojects on all of the experimental planes from the late 40's to early 60's.
Note the sky facing dorsolateral access hatch which ensures anyone can egress the vehicle once it reaches the surface. That is way nicer than having to wait an hour while someone slowly seals you inside by manually turning a bolt.
I saw the bathyscaphe at an exhibition here in Switzerland. I was surprised that it still exists.
It should be in Switzerland, or it’s home city, Trieste.
The Piccards are an amazing family. Their final achievment in exploring the Universe and boldly go where no men has gone before. TNG is awaiting us.
Jules Vernes’s novel title: « 20000 Leagues Under The Sea » had nothing to do with the depth. It was about the distance covered under the sea.
I was waiting for someone to mention this.
Yeah, a nautical league is about 3.5 miles, or 5.5 kilometers. Challenger deep is less then 2 leagues below sea level, heck Earth's diameter is only 2,262 leagues. 20,000 leagues would put you somewhere out in the Van Allen belts on the opposite side of the planet.
1:40 This "Piccard" was an explorer you say! Was he a "Captain" by chance? 🤔
Titan. Honestly, if they were going this deep 70 years ago, Why didn't they just buy a Quality Sub instead of make an inferior one... Obviously, Money was no object to these people, so why not buy the best !!!!
OceanGate is what profit oriented mindset does to a mf
Idea for a megaproject: Brasilia. An entire city built in 1000 days.
It already featured on his Sideprojects channel.
This was one of the best Megaproject vids you've done yet! Its extremely fascinating to realize how dangerous it really was yet they pushed the limits and the reward was great!
You went to new depths, with deep details! Simon, you sunk this one in for us!
Groan, please only one bad pun per comment
@@edwardbarks8989 I just hope everyone still SUB-cribes to this channel.
I sea what you did there.
I'm here after the titan submarine went missing
Both Trieste (DSV1) & Alvin (DSV2) are extremely underrated in the mainstream in terms of their past (& ongoing) contributions to scientific knowledge & discoveries. For example, we all take for granted the knowledge of the Earth's tectonic plates & their movement, but this wasn't discovered until the 1980's when Alvin began studying the Mid-Atlantic Ridge!
I must say it, even if said a hundred times before: off course there must be a J. Piccard going boldly where no men has gone before... 😉🖖
I remember watching this event on somewhat live TV when it happened- in black and white! I became, in those moments, a science fan for life- I imagine Gene Roddenberry had the same experience.
I bet Gene Roddenberry didn't choose that last name accidentally.
The line of Piccard explorers is very long
@@pozzowon Kirk was based on the British explorer Captain Cook. If I recall correctly, Cook was the first European to go to Australia
@@pozzowon There are lots of such EasterEggs scattered through Roddenberry's scripts and other writing.
@@Wi-Fi-El Not the first, at least two others, and likely more, got there first, not least William Dampier, though I cannot recall the name of the other, who was Portuguese if memory serves. Cook did do a lot of the initial east coast mapping, and his botanist, Joseph Banks, made descriptions and drawings of Australian flora that were incredibly detailed.
Interesting history on the first Triest. From 1978 to 1982, I served as a Machinist Mate onboard the U.S.S. Point Loma AGDS-2, which was an open LSD converted to carry and support the Triest II within its well deck. It was my understanding that Triest II could dive to 25K, though I was told that its actual depth limit was classified.
I remember seeing the Trieste at the Science Museum of Richmond Virginia USA in the back parking lot next to a bunch of golf carts, just sitting there with birds shitting on it back a few years ago. I was delivering a few packages there, I asked the receptionist, what's with the Trieste in the parking lot?
"We can't display it, it's women's history month".
My father dove in the Triest the Aluminaught and the Alvin. Nads of steel.
Nads of Steel, for when brass balls just can't take the pressure
Did he take part in the H-bomb search off Spain?
@@petesheppard1709 Holy shit he did! Pardon my French. I was going to mention that but then kind of figured no one would believe me. He even still had some of the telemetry and mission synopsis in these old falling apart folders but he's passed now and iv no idea where all that stuff went.
@@johncosta8538 That was a long shot... At the time, I thought Alvin was about the coolest research submersible, so I was interested in anything it was involved with.
@@petesheppard1709 there's a book called 'Waterbaby" that tells the story of the development of Alvin its a good read my dads even in it at one point I remember from when I was very young he could sleep through ANYTHING, some of the crew played a joke on him as he could sleep through seismic charges so they put a bunch of inflatable life vest under his mattress and pulled them all at once trying to scare him awake, but he just slept and woke up wrapped up like a taco.
And after that 1960 dive the next person to visit the Challenger Deep would be ...James Cameron several years after I had dropped out of college for the second time in 2012.
This would be a good time for all of us to re-discover Jacques Cousteau and his contributions to ocean exploration.😊
For Mega/Side Projects; Maybe look into The Confederation Bridge in Canada? Could be interesting, but I'm a little bias because my Uncle worked on it haha
Great presentation! Learned many facts of this "old" deep sea sub and record. Will watch this video again to remember more facts!
Titan brought me here.
I am already certain that the top of simons head is aerodynamically efficient, but now I start to wonder would it also be hydrodynamically efficient?
Thx for another great video to help pass the time during these dark days
Yes. They are both fluids.
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Visual Politk EN is now hosted by someone else. The Simon Whistler Show hasn't had updated content for a while.
Another interesting thing. Rolex supplied a prototype watch called the deepsea special which survived being strapped to the outside of trieste as well! Amazing for the time considering watches that could withstand even 300m of pressure was an engineering feat! The watch makes its way to museums sometimes!
One thing you missed about the window...it wasn't a flat pane. It was a very tapered cone-shaped block of glass. The tip of the cone was where the crew looked out, and the wide base was on the water side. This allowed for the pressure at depth to help push the cone in place on the mounting....similar to a plug door in an airliner.
The cracking was scary, but because it was a solid block, the cracks did not propagate to the point where the cone would give way. If that had happened, the crew would never know it.
well.... this hasnt aged well lol
Might I suggest the Rideau Canal as a future MP? Built in 1826. Pre-railroad era dams and locks built by hard labour and Scottish stone masons. 6 years, 200km, about 1000 dead. Engineering marvel of the 19th century. It's still there. It still works. The furthest reach of it was declared the Capital of Canada by Queen Victoria. It remains so today. - - - Bloddy excellent work on these vids! You and your team are amazing!
9:25 - 300 bombs to find a canyon...'Murica.
😄😄😄😄😄
Or 300 bombs to make their own 😁
Nobody knows what lies in the bottom of the sea.
- Let's drop 300 bombs on it.
Everybody used explosives for depth sounding back then.
@@petesheppard1709 Doesn't make it any smarter though if you consider the fact that it's literally unknown what's down there... It could be a giant sea monster or a layer of volatile materials ready to blow up half the planet :)
Fun fact: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea meant horizontal distance, not depth.
Bathyscaphe from Greek Βαθυσκάφος (va-thi-ska-fos), literally "deep vessel".
I'd love to see an episode about the reversal of the Chicago River.
the james cameron parts in "raising the bar" on south park are hilarious
so Piccard paved the way for a future captain of an Starship named Enterprise.
The name Picard on the show was actually a reference to this particular Piccard's father and/or his uncle.
I was hoping someone else caught that. I kind of wish this had been on the Business Blaze channel just for the Star Trek references throughout the entire thing
I remember and believe it was one of the movies that Jean-Luc Picard stated that he came from a long line of explorers.
ruclips.net/video/X6oUz1v17Uo/видео.html
Great video, i've always been fascinated by the Trieste, especially as a boy growing up in Miami in the 1960s
My father was a U.S. Navy officer stationed on Guam then and I was his oldest child. I attended the Adelup Elementary School and my third grade class took a field trip to see the Trieste before her record breaking dive.
About a month later, my family went to Tarague Beach. Lieutenant Don Walsh and my father were friends, and Jacques Piccard was an acquaintance. We saw them there, and Jacques Piccard was kind enough to take about 5 minutes to tell a hero worshipping almost nine year old boy what he saw. Sixty-one years later, I remember his first words about the bottom of the Challenger Deep:
"We expected to see a desert, and the first thing we saw was life."
Almost 21 years later, I was assigned as a Naval Flight Officer to Dad's old squadron on Guam, but that is another story for another day...
69 year old Mustang Naval Flight Officer sends.
The Great Manmade River project in Africa would be a very interesting subject for one of your future videos. Going off the top of my head, it involves Khaddafi, very deep drilling and ginormous amounts of piping to get the water to where it needs to be, allowing farming in the middle of the desert.
I guess the men were like "screw the cracked window, the deepest part of the ocean is beautiful!"
I'd like to suggest Oak Ridge National Lab/Y-12. ORNL and it's accompanying city didn't officially exist until they'd already existed for a few decades. It was also designed to take one nuclear warhead per building (separated by mountain ridges).
suggestion: the James Bay hydroelectric complex in Northern Québec, the largest in North America.
And how the Sun shut it down in 1989!
@@natureandphysics403 The thing about that event is that the people who lived through it, myself included (for the record I was an adult raising a young family at the time, just so you don't think it's an obscure childhood memory), barely remember it. It is far more dramatic as told on the internet than it was in reality.
@@CaptHollister Imagine it happened today. The mental trauma to follow will be far worse that CoVID social distancing.
Most people don't realize it's pitch black 400 feet down, and for instance off the Caribbean there is a 13,000ft cliff to the sea floor. So even if you can go down, what are you going to see besides whatever you can light up, while not trying to discover Godzilla or a Kraken?
Submarines don't need extra ballards because of the sheer weight of their crews balls.
Idea: Construction of US Interstate 70 through the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. So spectacularly difficult and expensive it was only finished in 1992 (the last part of the interstate highway system) and it still occasionally has boulders fall down and punch holes through it
Yyyyyyep. I drove to Colorado Springs in 2005 and about an hour after I passed (I think) Idaho Springs on the way back west, I heard a report that a bolder had come down and blocked the freeway.
You should do the Harland and Wolff cranes "Samson and Goliath" in Belfast!
Maybe a side project...
Probably better for side projects
Not sure if you've done this, but how 'bout a video about the mapping of the ocean? I remember watching a video about the discovery of Challenger Deep by the British Navy (maybe?) when they were mapping the ocean depths.
Also, wheredja get that t-shirt?
They went where no one had gone before.
We now know that hyperosmocity is not a barrier to macro and microlife. It was once beleived that life beyond certain depth was not possible as extreme pressure prevented proper protein folding. Until it was discovered that bathnic life had enzymes and other simpler proteins that assisted complex protein folding. As long as water remained liquid, no mater how cold, life could exist and prosper. High water pressure also increases salinity which turns seawater into a mild salt acid. This assists lifeforms in processing sinking organic matter down to molecular level. Some virologists beleive that virons first formed at bottom of Earth's oceans about 4 to 3.7 billion years ago.When those oceans were even deeper due to fracturing of crust.
Another suggestion, the USS Nautilus SSN-571
i second this
@@jamescormack4669 Considering it was the first ever nuclear submarine, and the story of the USN's resistance to it is so ironic considering the success, nuke subs are here to stay, and the USN is never going to back to anything else, even AIP, it deserves a video.
I remember reading about the Trieste along with one of the famous cutaway drawings in the “Eagle” It was an amazing feat at its time! It was the prototype that ended with James Cameron’s amazing dives!
Idea for a Megaprojects video: New Egyptian Administrative capital: Wedian City.
This was one of the most outstanding exploration achievements in human history. Everest, hold my submarine. The design, the challenge. Lets go for it. Everyone thinks of Everest, but not the challenger deep. If I speak of this I would just get a Uhhhhh.
Morning mega projects wouldn’t be the same without it.
Piccard is both the inspiration for professor Calculus in Tintin and the name of Jean Luc Picard in Star Trek.
Talk of an awesome legacy…
I read this video title as "Birthplace of Thirst" and so I clicked
Wonderful and fascinating film. The character Professor Calculus from Herget’s Tintin stories was based on August Picard.