etc. This category is the most likely subject 

 for change. 



Manipulators: The devices with capabili- 

 ties approximating those of the human arm 

 and hand and which permit an operator 

 within the submersible to carry out specific 

 work functions outside the submersible. 



Safety Features: Systems or components 

 whereby the occupants of the vehicle may 

 deal with emergencies such as power loss, 

 normal deballasting loss, fire, entanglement, 

 etc. 



Surface Support: The combination of 

 equipments, systems and personnel neces- 

 sary to transport, prepare for launch, 

 launch, track, communicate with, retrieve 

 and otherwise service the submersible and 

 its occupants before, during and after actual 

 diving operations. 



With the advent of the C5A all submers- 

 ibles, excluding A t/G(/Sr£ PICCARD, ARGY- 

 RONETE, 1\R-1 and the bathyscaphs, are 

 air, sea and land (truck or rail) transportable. 

 Only a few have a permanent support plat- 

 form; for those that do, the name and nature 

 of the support platform is included. Submers- 

 ibles relying on charter ships or "Ships of 

 Opportunity" are noted as '"SOOJ" 



External Lighting: Lights located outside 

 the pressure hull are used for viewing, pilot- 

 ing, etc. The majority of submersibles have a 

 capability for external illumination; those 

 that do not, need merely purchase an off-the- 

 shelf underwater light. Rearrangement and 

 modifications to lights are quite common and 

 simple to conduct. For these reasons no de- 

 scription of a submersible's lighting ar- 

 rangement or quantity is provided, for it is 

 too likely to change. 



The references provided are the sources 

 from which descriptions of specific submers- 

 ibles were obtained. In many instances the 

 data was acquired from builders' brochures 

 or specifications. In some cases it was de- 

 rived from personal contact with the builder; 

 where this is the case it is so noted. 



REFERENCES 



ALL OCEAN Fact sheet and Operating In- 



ALUMINAUT 



ALVIN 



AQUARIUS I 

 ARIES I 

 PISCES I, II, 

 III, IV, V 



ARCHIMEDE 



ARGYRO- 

 NETE 



STAR II 

 ASHERAH 



AUGUSTE 

 PICCARD 



BEAVER 



INDUSTRIES 



structions from All Ocean In- 

 dustries, Inc., Houston, Texas 



Sheets, H.E. and Loughman, 

 R.R. 1964 The ALUMINAUT. 



Paper presented at the 1st 

 Ann. Meeting of the Ameri- 

 can Institute of Aeronautics 

 and Astronautics, Wash., 

 D.C., 29 June-2 July 1964. 

 AIAA No. 64-459 

 Mavor, J.W., Froehlich, H.E., 

 Marquet, W.M. and Rainnie, 

 W.O. 1966 ALVIN, 6,000-ft 

 submergence research vehi- 

 cle. Paper presented at the 

 Ann. Meeting, New York, 

 N.Y., Nov. 10-11, 1966 of The 

 Soc. of Naval Architects and 

 Marine Engineers, n. 3, 32 pp. 

 International Hydrodynam- 

 ics Inc., North Vancouver, 

 B.C. Fact sheets and personal 

 communications with staff 

 members. Vickers Oceanics 

 Ltd. advertising brochure 

 Le Bnthyscaphe AR- 



CHIMEDE. Technical bro- 

 chure published by D.C.A.N. 

 Toulon, March 1971 



Willm, P. 1971 Project ARCy- 

 RONETE. A talk delivered at 

 the OCEANEXPO Collo- 

 quium 9-12 March 1971, Bro- 

 deaux, France 



Brancart, C.P. and Hoffman, 

 G.H. 1967 STAR II A second 

 generation research subma- 

 rine. Trans. 3rd Ann. Mar. 

 Tech. Soc. Conf. & Exhibit, 5- 

 7 June 1967 San Diego, Calif., 

 p. 459-478 



The submarine AUGUSTE 

 PICCARD. Technical De- 

 scription published by The 

 Swiss National Exhibition, 

 Lausanne, Switzerland 1964 

 Black, D.C. 1968 BEAVER 

 MK IV Submarine Work 

 Boat. Tech. Description T8- 

 1473/020. Ocn. Sys. Opera- 

 tions of North American 

 Rockwell Corp., Anaheim, 

 Calif. 



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