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World Service,10 mins

Undersea Exploration

Analysis Archive

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Forty years ago this week America landed men on the moon for the first time. Yet in the 1960s US scientists were also actively pursuing the exploration of the bottom of the seas. Vincent Dowd looks at why those efforts are now so often forgotten.

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