Aluminaut

The Aluminaut was a U.S. research submarine. It was built in 1964 by Electric Boat as the first aluminum submarine in the world and should prove the advantages of the material aluminum. Authorities and operators was the Reynolds Metals Company.

The maximum depth was about 4700 m, the weight at about 80 tonnes. Because of the large size of the submarine could not, as usual, be stowed on board a vessel, but had to be towed by a tug to the site.

Involved it was partly due to the recovery of the hydrogen bomb in 1966 near Spain and filming for Jacques Cousteau.

In 1970 the dive boat at the Science Museum of Virginia has passed.

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