The similarity between the deep seas and deep space is that both environments are completely inhospitable to humans…
Pretty much the same way the first satellite in space ( Sputnik-1957 ) was a small yet major step for mankind…the first midget submarines were also the same…
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Yet we devote so much of our time to airplanes and spaceships that we rarely acknowledge these levithians….
Here are four nuclear submarine wrecks you might want to check out…
USS Thresher – 1961
USS Scorpion – 1968
K-278 Komsolets – 1989
K-141 Kursk – 2000
The Komsolets had a Titanium double hull and could actually dive to 1300mts xtreme and 1500mts crush depth!! Double that of any other subs xcept submersibles like the Trieste…..went all the way to 10916mts…the base of the Mariana Trench….the deepest point of any of the Earth’s oceans….
For some reason Russia likes to sink their nuclear subs in the Barents Sea!! Probably because their biggest submarine port was there….compelling stuff!!