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Gallery - Submersibles
'Pisces 1', the first of the many submersibles produced by International Hydrodynamics Ltd. ('Hyco') in North Vancouver, BC. This 1000' sub was designed and engineered by Al Trice and Mack Thompson. C1965.
Pisces 1 undergoes sea trials at Bedwell Bay, North Vancouver, 1965.
Pisces 1 in the 'shop', a section of Vancouver Cannery owned by Harry McGee. Hyco subsequently set up shop in North Vancouver at 145 Riverside Drive and built a series of subs under the supervision of Engineer Jim McFarlane and Hyco co-founders Allan Trice and Mack Thompson. The last Pisces Class was Pisces 11. 1965.
Pisces IV. This 6,500 foot deep-diving sub was originally a part of the Canadian Navy's submersible fleet and now resides in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, where it carries out scientific work for the University of Hawaii and NOAA. Photo C1972.
Another Hyco Pisces sub called 'SDL-1' (Submesible Diver Lock-Out 1). SDL-1 carried commercial, scientific and military divers who could leave a separate pressurized air lock, complete a task and then lock-back into the sub and be carried to the surface whilst maintaining bottom pressure. The sub would then 'mate' to a ship-board decompression chamber. Originally, SDL-1 was owned by the Canadian Navy and sold off as surplus assets many years later.
A 1000'-rated Pisces submersible called 'Aquarius'. Currently operated by North Vancouver's Nuytco Research Ltd., this sub has seen service all over the world doing scientific surveys and acquiring video footage for major television channels. Photo C2000.
