Dakar - World’s Record Deep Sea Dive (1954)

Dakar. Angle shot bathyscaph “.“ being lowered into sea, & LV. CU Commander George Hout watching. CU engineer commander Pierre Willm watching. LV working on bathyscaph. CU frogmen inspecting. SV frogmen diving. SV Commander Hout waving. SV pan to back view, bathyscaph being towed out to sea. Air view, bathyscaph being towed out to sea. SV bathyscaph at destination preparing to dive CU ballast and fuel tanks at side of bathyscaph. SV crew of vessel watching dive. LV bathyscaph diving. SV photographers taking pictures. SV Commander Hout and Willm sailing into harbour on bathyscaph, & SCU, & CU. Bathyscaph dived two and a half miles deep. (F.G.) (Orig “K“) (Title Scene “G“) FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which