Since the early 1700s when Edmund Halley invented the first diving bell, oceanographers and engineers had been putting forth a series of efforts to overcome the obstacles associated with deep sea exploration. The diving bell and diving helmet extended...

A bathyscape, bathyscaphe, or bathyscaph is a free-diving self-propelled deep-sea diving submersible, consisting of a crew cabin similar to a bathysphere suspended below a float (rather than from a surface cable, as in the classic bathysphere design)...

Alan Macfarlane and Gerry Martin Profile Books 199pp 15 [pounds sterling] ISBN 18197 400 0 Throwing Fire Projectile Technology Through History Alfred W. Crosby Cambridge University Press 199pp 20 [pounds sterling] ISBN 0 521 79158 8 HISTORIANS RENDER THE OPAQUE TRANSPARENT...

Harold E. Froehlich, who designed a deep-sea vessel used to explore the wreckage of the Titanic and search for ocean life forms, has died, his family said Wednesday. He was 84.He had cancer and died May 19 at a suburban hospital, his family said.Froehlich was...

Fannie Lee ChaneyJACKSON, Miss. (AP) _ Fannie Lee Chaney, the mother of one of three civil-rights workers killed in the "Mississippi Burning" case in 1964, died Tuesday, her son said. She was 84.Ben Chaney confirmed her death from his mother's home in Willingboro, N.J.Chaney lived...

Two small Russian submarines completed a risky voyage deep below the North Pole Thursday, planting their country's flag in a titanium capsule on the Arctic Ocean floor to symbolically claim what could be vast energy reserves beneath the seabed.The subs dove some 2 1/2 miles...