Assault on the unknown : oceanographic research platforms | WorldCat.org (original) (raw)

Summary:This Navy film describes the history of deep submersibles beginning with the 1934 bathyscape built by William Beebe and including an account of Auguste Piccard's Trieste I in which Piccard descended to a depth of seven miles. The film describes how submersibles are used by biologists to study the ocean. It depicts manned and unmanned ocean platforms including a research tower developed by Eugene LaFond in 1959. John Isaacs exhibits his Bumble-Bee Buoys, Victor Anderson demonstrates the Remote Underwater Manipulator (RUM). The film demonstrates other platforms including FLIP, the Monster Buoy, Ice Island, and other instruments. The film documents instruments developed and deployed at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, particularly at its Marine Physical Laboratory. It includes instruments and platforms developed by the U.S. Navy and research sponsored by the Office of Naval Research