Science class
Benthos
Benthos is built for work, not records. Its larger sphere seats a pilot and two scientists, each with their own viewport, and its twin hydraulic manipulators can set an instrument, take a push-core, or lift a rock as gently as a hand.
Rated to 6,000 metres, it reaches ninety-eight per cent of the world’s seafloor. It is the craft that does the science the records make possible.
- Depth rating
- 6,000 m
- Crew
- 3
- Life support
- 10 hours
- Viewport
- Three 120mm domes
- Cruise
- 2.5 knots
- Pressure hull
- Titanium sphere, 1.9m
- Weight in air
- 9.2 t
