The Sun Beneath the Sea

Cover
Title
Copyright
Contents
Illustrations
Foreword
Part One: Mesoscaph Auguste Piccard
	1 First Dive in the Lake
	2 The Origin of the Mesoscaph
	3 The Exposition
	4 Drama in Lausanne
	5 Thirty-three Thousand Passengers Under Water
Part Two: Mesoscaph Ben Franklin
	6 The Meeting with Grumman
	7 The PX-15
	8 Americans in Lausanne
	9 Technological Developments
	10 Departure from Europe
	11 Swiss in Florida
	12 New Tests with the Ben Franklin
	13 The Surface Does Not Reply
Part Three: The Longest Night
	14 Departure from Palm Beach
	15 Tour of Inspection
	16 Six Men in a Boat
	17 The Beginning of the Dive
	18 Log
	19 Lost in the Gulf Stream
	20 The Life in the Sea
	21 The Drift Continues
	22 Second Excursion to the Bottom
	23 The Rubicon
	24 The Attack
	25 Plankton
	26 Ambience
	27 The Sea in Motion
	28 Our First Sunday Under Water
	29 New Descents to the Bottom
	30 Encounter with the Lapon
	31 New Hypotheses, New Studies
	32 Surfacing
	33 Free Fall
	34 Deep-Water Dive
	35 At Half Time
	36 National Holiday
	37 Anna Threatens
	38 The Prisoner Salpa
	39 The Visit of the Tunas
	40 The Visit of El Coyote
	41 Toward the Bermudas
	42 On the Edge of the Chart
	Five o'Clock Tea and Hurricanes
	44 Last Descent
	45 Deep Scattering Layer
	46 The Expedition Ends
	47 Afterword
Appendix: Results of the Gulf Stream Drift Mission
	Technical Findings Related to the Ben Franklin
	Technical Findings Related to Survival Aboard
	Oceanographic Observations
	The NASA Studies
Index