http://www.anorak.co.uk/193970/twitterings/rip-jacques-piccard.html Tabloid news for broadsheet readers Mon, 23 Nov 2009 02:34:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 http://www.anorak.co.uk/193970/twitterings/rip-jacques-piccard.html/comment-page-1#comment-399468 magnetite Thu, 20 Nov 2008 07:32:12 +0000 http://www.anorak.co.uk/?p=193970#comment-399468 It's late, but better that than never. RIP, matey. If I heard a terrifying crack at 30,000 feet below the surface I'd have hightailed it back up as fast as the bathysphere could carry me, bends be blowed, but you two still went for it that extra 5,800 feet before touching down in the ooze and staying for 20 minutes. Cracks in the window and all. No-one has bettered your dive. Brave, mad - whatever you were - I salute you. It’s late, but better that than never. RIP, matey. If I heard a terrifying crack at 30,000 feet below the surface I’d have hightailed it back up as fast as the bathysphere could carry me, bends be blowed, but you two still went for it that extra 5,800 feet before touching down in the ooze and staying for 20 minutes. Cracks in the window and all. No-one has bettered your dive. Brave, mad - whatever you were - I salute you.

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