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Pisces III: A dramatic underwater rescue
By Vanessa Barford
BBC News Magazine
Forty years ago two British sailors plunged almost 1,600ft into an abyss, 150 miles off Ireland, in a deep-sea submersible. Trapped in a 6ft-diameter steel ball for three days, the men had only 12 minutes of oxygen left when they were finally rescued.
The story of Pisces III, which made headlines at the time, is now largely forgotten.
But on Wednesday 29 August 1973 former Royal Navy submariner Roger Chapman, then 28, and engineer Roger Mallinson, then 35, plunged to the bottom of the Atlantic ocean in an accident, sparking a 76-hour international rescue operation.
Here's how the incident and rescue effort unfolded:
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-23862359