Auguste Piccard (PX-8)

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Jacques Piccard, a pioneering figure, set foot on the world's first passenger submarine. Among his notable feats was a record-breaking ocean dive that spanned an astonishing seven miles. Reference: Piccard - Wikipedia Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Piccard&oldid=800841333" Technical Data Sheet 1 MESOSCAPHE PX-8 AUGUSTE PICCARD General Dimensions Overall length: twenty-eight point five meters Overall width: six point eight meters Overall height: seven point four three meters External diameter: three point one five meters Draught: three point six three meters Weight: seventy-eight point seven eight tons Total weight ready for sea: one hundred sixty-five point four eight tons Displacement surfaced: one hundred seventy-eight tons Displacement submerged: two hundred twenty-two tons Payload: ten tons Stability: forty-one meters per ton Foundry: Voesst, Linz (A) Construction: Giovanola Frères SA, Monthey, (CH) Materials: Aldur 55 steel hull, Plexiglas portholes (polymethylmethacrylate) Engines: Bau & Montage, Hamburg, (D) Cabin Internal length: twenty-one point nine two meters Internal diameter: two point zero three seven meters Hull thickness: thirty-eight millimeters Portholes: forty-five Plexiglas portholes Passengers: forty people Crew: three men (one commander, one pilot, one mechanic) + one woman (one hostess at sea). The two women of the crew are considered to be the world's first female submariners. Endurance submerged: forty-eight hours with forty-four people on board Batteries: six hundred kilowatt-hours, effective for discharge in ten hours at thirty degrees Celsius Engine power: seventy-five horsepower Descent speed: four to five knots Speed: six knots on the surface Records established: World's first tourist submarine; thirty-three thousand passengers taken to the bottom of Lake Geneva. Completed dives Sixteen July 1964, inaugural dive (two months after the start of Expo 64) During the summers of 1964 and 1965, one thousand one hundred dives in Lake Geneva, taking thirty thousand visitors to a depth of approximately one hundred meters (three twenty-eight feet) in complete safety. From 1969 to 1984, scientific and industrial observation dives in the Gulf of Mexico. Actual location: Constructed in 1963 at a total cost of seven point three million Swiss francs. Sold in 1969 to an American company based in Vancouver, Horton Maritime, for one point seven million Swiss francs and used for exploring submarine wrecks. From 1984, placed in dry dock in Galveston, Texas (USA). Eighteen eighty-six: bought by a Texan industrialist for fifteen thousand Swiss francs. Nineteen ninety-eight, bought for thirty-five thousand Swiss francs by the Association for the Auguste Piccard Mesoscaphe, which repatriated it to Switzerland in April nineteen ninety-nine to be exhibited in Morat as part of Expo 02. The Swiss Transport Museum in Lucerne took possession of it in two thousand four. Total weight ready for sea: one hundred sixty-five point four eight tons Parts are scale 1:100 MESOSCAPHE PX-8 AUGUSTE PICCARD_HULL_PART+FRUNT 1:10 SCALE MESOSCAPHE PX-8 AUGUSTE PICCARD_HULL_PART 1:10 SCALE P.S Auguste Piccard (PX-8) part MESOSCAPHE_PX-8_AUGUSTE_PICCARD_HULL_PART_ is thirteen ninety-nine point sixty-eight millimeters long, seventy-four two point four four millimeters wide, and seventy-point zero one five seven millimeters high. I accidentally used inches instead of millimeters in the design program, and the STLs are twenty-five point four times bigger than intended.