This chapter examines a series of expeditions that illuminate deep-sea research after 1945. How was the deep sea constructed as a space in need of exploration? And to what extent was merely encountering the deep sea an end in its own right—the successful completion of a journey constituting experimental verification of a technology of mobility? The Swedish Albatross expedition (1947–8, led by Hans Pettersson) and the Danish Galathea expedition (1950–2, led by Anton Bruun) are analysed in the first half of the chapter, while the second half concerns the bathyscaphe, a deep-sea submersible developed by the Swiss physicist Auguste Piccard. The differences highlight the cultural work involved in constructing expeditions as both acts of data collection and articulations of values.
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