Archimède
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The bathyscaphe Archimède is a deep diving research submersible of the French Navy. It used of hexane as the gasoline buoyancy of its float. It was designed by Pierre Willm and Georges Houot. In 1964, Archimède descended into "what was then thought to be the deepest part of the Puerto Rico Trench", which the NY Times reported as .
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- 22.1
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- 2.5
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The bathyscaphe Archimède is a deep diving research submersible of the French Navy. It used of hexane as the gasoline buoyancy of its float. It was designed by Pierre Willm and Georges Houot. In 1964, Archimède descended into "what was then thought to be the deepest part of the Puerto Rico Trench", which the NY Times reported as .
Archimède was christened on 27 July 1961, at the French Navy base of Toulon. It was designed to go beyond , and displaced 61 tons. In October 1961, Archimède passed its first dive tests, diving to uncrewed. On 27 November 1961, Archimède achieved a speed of , over a distance of at a depth of in the Mediterranean Sea.