Allyn Collins Vine; Designed Deep-Sea Research Submarine

Allyn Collins Vine, 79, who designed the Alvin, the first manned, deep-sea research submarine. The 25-foot Alvin, whose name was derived from Vine’s first and last names, has made nearly 2,500 dives, many to depths of 13,000 feet. It was used to explore the wreck of the Titanic and to recover a hydrogen bomb in the Mediterranean Sea in 1965. Vine began working at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution during World War II. He retired as a senior scientist in 1979. He held six patents on oceanographic devices. On Tuesday in Woods Hole, Mass., of unreported causes.