FNRS-2 was built from 1946 to 1948. It was damaged during sea trials in 1948, off the Cape Verde Islands. [1] FNRS-2 was sold to the French Navy when FNRS funding ran low, in 1948. The French rebuilt and rebaptised it FNRS-3. It was eventually replaced by the FNRS-4.

The first bathyscaphe was dubbed FNRS-2, named after the Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique, and built in Belgium from 1946 to 1948 by Auguste Piccard. (FNRS-1 had been the balloon used for Piccard's ascent into the stratosphere in 1938).

The first Bathyscaph, the FNRS-2, was conceived, designed, and constructed in, or shortly after, 1947, by Professor August Piccard, a Swiss physicist and inventor. The word Bathyscaph was coined by him from the Greek words BATHOS "deep", and SCAPHOS "ship", thus "Bathyscaph".

FNRS-2 The first bathyscaphe, developed by Swiss engineer Auguste Piccard and named after the Belgian Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique (FNRS), the funding organization for the venture. FNRS also funded the FNRS-1, a balloon that set a world altitude record, also built by Piccard. This bathyscaphe consisted of a gasoline filled float ...

The first bathyscaphe, the FNRS 2, built in Belgium between 1946 and 1948, was damaged during 1948 trials in the Cape Verde Islands. Substantially rebuilt and greatly improved, the vessel was renamed FNRS 3 and carried out a series of descents under excellent conditions, including one of 4,000 metres (13,000 feet) into the Atlantic off Dakar ...

The first bathyscaphe, the FNRS 2, built in Belgium between 1946 and 1948, was damaged during 1948 trials in the Cape Verde Islands. Substantially rebuilt and greatly improved, the vessel was renamed FNRS 3 and carried out a series of descents under excellent conditions, including one of 4,000 metres…

The FNRS-2 was the first bathyscaphe. It was created by Auguste Piccard. Work started in 1937 but was interrupted by World War II. The deep-diving submarine was finished in 1948. The bathyscaphe was named after the Belgian Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique (FNRS), the funding organization for the

The first bathyscaphe was the FNRS-2, designed by Swiss scientist-adventurer Auguste Piccard and funded by the Belgian Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique (whose initials gave the submersible its name). Work started on the FNRS-2 in 1937, but …

Jan 23, 2020 · The first bathyscaphe was named FNRS-2 after Belgium's Fonds National de la Researche Scientifique (FNRS), who paid for it. The craft was ready for testing in 1948, but ran into...

Piccard's first version of this vessel, the FNRS-2, supported by the Belgian Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique (FNRS), could dive to 10,000 feet (3,048 meters) without a cable attaching it to a surface ship.