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The aluminaut was a US -amerikanisches research submarine . It was founded in 1964 by Electric Boat is the first aluminum - submarine built in the world and the advantages of the material should prove aluminum. The client and operator was the "Reynolds Metals Company".
The maximum diving depth was around 4,700 m, the weight around 80 tons. Ballast was carried in the form of a lead keel, which was thrown off to surface. Because of its large size, the submarine could not be stowed on board a ship as usual , but had to be towed to the scene by a tug .
It was involved in the recovery of the hydrogen bomb near Spain in 1966 and in filming for Jacques Cousteau .
In 1969 - thanks to this submersible - the research submarine Alvin , which had been lost a year earlier, was recovered from a depth of 1,580 m.
In 1970 the submersible was handed over to the Virginia Science Museum.
Web links
- Aluminaut in the Virginia Science Museum ( September 22, 2012 memento in the Internet Archive )