What is Bathyscape?
Bathyscape is essentially Bathysphere-Silly surrounded by metal ball for diving-screwed to the bottom of the float or floating devices used to change the depth. Bathyscape is used to explore the deep sea. The most famous is Bathyscape Triest , which reached the deepest point on the Earth's surface, the challenge deep in Mariana Trench, carrying two passengers, Jacques Piccard and Lieutenant Don Walsh. So little Bathyscapes were built that this term is most often associated specifically with the TRIEST
Bathyscape began with the construction of the first Bathysféry, designed by Otis Barton in 1928. The first Bathysphere was hollow, with one -inch (2.54 cm thick) walls, on average 4.75 ft (1.5 m) in diameter. For windows was used fused quartz, which was used at this point the strongest transparent material. Instead of being self -sufficient as TRiest , this early Bathysphere was launched into the depths of Tether. Oxygen was provided through a pressure vessel nand the outer side of the ball and carbon dioxide removed by electric fans by circulating air through pans containing soda lime.
Bathyscape was an improvement in Bathysphere, designed by a Swiss physicist, inventor and explorer Auguste Piccard. Piccard was originally interested in the construction of atmospheric balloons and realized that some of these concepts would allow the construction of a craft that could descend into the deep ocean. After extensive attempts and errors from the mid -30s until the middle of the 50th year, Piccard Bathyscape invented suitable for the use of the French Navy, which used it for a safe mission of up to 4,176 m (13,700 ft). This is very impressive and even the strongest modern nuclear submarine has a crushing depth of 730 m (2,400 feet).
Thefloating part of Bathyscape is filled with gasoline that is almost incompressible. The Bathyscape descends, releases gasoline and replaces it VODou and reduces the buoyancy of the vessel. Iron buckets are held inside the craft through electromagnets. Once the vessel reaches the bottom, this shot relaxes to get out. It is a mechanism safe for failure-I when the power fails, the shot is equally relaxed, so no one is trapped on the bottom of the ocean.
The term Bathyscaphe was made using Greek words Bathys ("Deep") and Skaphos ("Ship"). Since retirement, most of the deep submarines have been only robotic.