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NGS Adventure - Master of the Abyss
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  • Length

    52:00 mins

  • Education Subject Areas

    Science & Technology

    U.S. History

  • Year Produced

    2000

  • Production Code

    65498C

  • Title

    NGS Adventure - Master of the Abyss

NGS Adventure - Master of the Abyss

Between 1930 and 1934, Beebe undertook a series of ever more daring dives, pushing the envelope of what was technologically possible. In a remarkable oversized steel ball designed by Otis Barton, a young, eccentric New England engineer, the two men probed deeper and deeper into the ocean's darkest secrets. The final dive, sponsored by National Geographic Society, reached an incredible depth of 3,028 feet. No submarine and no diver broke that record for fifteen years.

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