PART TWO 



THE TRIESTE 



In the spring of is)52 my son Jacques and I accepted the proposal 

 received from Trieste to build a new bathyscaphe : it was to bear the name 

 of that city. 



We are fundamentally indebted to Swiss and Italian generosity for 

 being able to bring off our first series of experiments: therefore the 

 Trieste wore the flags of those two countries together. Italian industry 

 granted us industrial and technical aid and Swit:{erland gave us large 

 funds. The Fiat company accorded us generous grants and by its gift of 

 a car facilitated our work. The Esso Company put at our disposal 22,000 

 gallons of extra-light petrol distilled specially for us. The Terni Company^ 

 the Cantieri Riuniti delV Adriatico {United Adriatic Shipyards) and those 

 of Castellammare di Stabia, and many other firms and institutions, in 

 Switzerland as well as in Italy, generously shared in the undertaking. I 

 shall speak of them later. I thank them all. In the appendix will be found 

 the list of friends, patrons and donors. 



What did our new machine look like!* 



The general principle of the FNRS 2 was naturally kept: a watertight 

 cabin sustained by a float containing petrol. But there was an essential 

 difference: the machine was intended to be towed, as we have already said: 

 the result was that the crew had to be able to enter and leave the cabin on 

 the open sea, by a shaft which went down through the float. This involved 

 considerable modifications. The cabin, however, was almost identical with 

 that of the FNRS 2. 



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