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“It goes as deep as commercial aircraft fly,” says
Jarl Stromer, compliance and quality manager at
Triton Submarines.
Stromer says Triton will likely have explosive
growth, based in part on expectations that the
cruise lines will become buyers as they create
voyages for adventure tourists who want a ride in
a deep-water submersible.
A Triton submarine called the Limiting Factor,
carrying underseas explorer Victor Vescovo, by
May had completed four of five planned dives to
the deepest parts of the world’s oceans, which is
being recorded and produced for Discovery Channel.
In late April, Vescovo, solo in the Triton sub,
set a record by reaching a depth of 10,928 meters
(35,853 feet) in the Mariana Trench in the Pacific
Ocean, the deepest part of any ocean on earth.
Once the Five Deeps Expedition https://
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Limiting Factor and its surface support ship and
other equipment will be for sale, at between $41
million and $42 million, Stromer says.
“This is not science fiction. It’s not James Bond
stuff anymore,” Stromer notes.
Maybe not, but there have been talks with the
makers of the James Bond film series about producing
a sub to be used in a future film, to have
interior adornments by Aston Martin, the maker
of sports cars driven by the world’s most famous
fictional spy. v
A Triton submarine
made in Sebastian.
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