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4 unusual facts about SP-350 Denise|


Continental Shelf Station Two

The undersea living experiment also had two other structures, one a submarine hangar that housed a small, two man submarine referred to as the "diving saucer" for its resemblance to a science fiction flying saucer, and a smaller "deep cabin" where two oceanauts lived at a depth of 30 metres for a week.

Mollard

Jean Mollard, a French engineer who invented with Jacques-Yves Cousteau the SP-350 Denise "Diving saucer"

SP350

SP-350 Denise, a small submarine designed to hold two people capable of exploring depths of up to 400 metres invented by Jacques-Yves Cousteau

Voyage to the Edge of the World

It also was the first film to show high depth footage in Antarctic waters (thanks to the diving saucer SP-350 Denise).



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