Assault on the Unknown: Ocean Research Platforms, 1972. [motion picture]

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Assault on the Unknown: Ocean Research Platforms, 1972. [motion picture]

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/35851071

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. This 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. The film was awarded a Silver Medal by the International Film and TV Festival of New York.

1 reel (28 min.) : sd., col. ; 16mm print.

University of California, San Diego, UC San Diego Library; UCSD Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7375387

University of California, San Diego, UC San Diego Library; UCSD Library

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Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Library. Archives.

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Beebe, Charles William, 1877-1962

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Charles William Beebe (born July 29, 1877, Brooklyn, New York – died June 4, 1962, Simla, Trinadad Tobago), American naturalist, ornithologist, marine biologist, entomologist, explorer, and author. He is remembered for the numerous expeditions he conducted for the New York Zoological Society, his deep dives in the Bathysphere, and his prolific scientific writing for academic and popular audiences. Born in Brooklyn, New York and raised in East Orange, New Jersey, Beebe left college before obta...

Scripps Institution of Oceanography

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Anderson, Victor C

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Trieste (Bathyscaphe)

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LaFond, Eugene Cecil, 1909-

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Piccard, Auguste, 1894-1962.

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Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Marine Physical Laboratory

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The Marine Physical Laboratory was established in 1946 as a successor of the University of California, Division of War Research (UCDWR). From the description of Papers, 1941-1990 (bulk 1946-1980) (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79789806 ...

Isaacs, John D.

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United States. Naval Air Systems Command

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