After sinking, the RMS Titanic lay undisturbed beneath 12,000 feet of freezing North Atlantic water for years, but in 1985 its watery tomb was finally breached by another marquee vessel—the crown prince of HOVs. Alvin is a manned deep-sea research vessel named after Allyn Vine, an oceanographer instrumental to modern deep-ocean research. The vessel is [...]
After sinking, the RMS Titanic lay undisturbed beneath 12,000 feet of freezing North Atlantic water for years, but in 1985 its watery tomb was finally breached by another marquee vessel—the crown prince of HOVs. Alvin is a manned deep-sea research vessel named after Allyn Vine, an oceanographer instrumental to modern deep-ocean research. The vessel is [...]
