NAUTILE submersible
Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2011 8:35 pm
She was built as a deep-submersible by the DNC Naval Shipyard in Toulon for Ifremer.
Completed under the name NAUTILE.
Dim. 8.0 x 2.7 x 3.81m. (draught)
Powered by a electric motor, speed 1,5 knots.
Range 7.5 km. Endurance 120 hours.
Test depth 6,000 metres.
Crew 3.
Completed in 1984.
The NAUTILE is a manned submersible owned by Ifremer, the French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea. Commissioned in 1984, the submersible can be operated at depths of up to 6 km (3.7 miles).
The NAUTILE is a miniature submarine, based on the bathyscaphe design, and capable of housing just three people. It has a length of 8 m, still imaging cameras, two colour video cameras, and a number of flood lights. It is fitted with two robotic arms to allow remote manipulation. The NAUTILE can stay under water for up to eight hours at a time.
The vessel has been used to examine the wreck of the RMS TITANIC and in the search for the flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder from the ill-fated Air France Flight 447
Most probably the vessel depict on the $1.20 stamp is the L’ATALANTE, see index for her details.
Pitcairn Islands 2010 $1.20, $1.50 and $3.00 sg?, scott?
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nautile
Completed under the name NAUTILE.
Dim. 8.0 x 2.7 x 3.81m. (draught)
Powered by a electric motor, speed 1,5 knots.
Range 7.5 km. Endurance 120 hours.
Test depth 6,000 metres.
Crew 3.
Completed in 1984.
The NAUTILE is a manned submersible owned by Ifremer, the French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea. Commissioned in 1984, the submersible can be operated at depths of up to 6 km (3.7 miles).
The NAUTILE is a miniature submarine, based on the bathyscaphe design, and capable of housing just three people. It has a length of 8 m, still imaging cameras, two colour video cameras, and a number of flood lights. It is fitted with two robotic arms to allow remote manipulation. The NAUTILE can stay under water for up to eight hours at a time.
The vessel has been used to examine the wreck of the RMS TITANIC and in the search for the flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder from the ill-fated Air France Flight 447
Most probably the vessel depict on the $1.20 stamp is the L’ATALANTE, see index for her details.
Pitcairn Islands 2010 $1.20, $1.50 and $3.00 sg?, scott?
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nautile