and organized the first commercial society in Spain dedicated to the exploration of submarine navigation with the name of Monturiol, Font, Altadill y Cia. and a capital of 10,000 pesetas.

In 1858 Monturiol presented his project in a scientific thesis, titled The Ictineo (Fish-Ship). The first dive of his first submarine, Ictineo I, took place in September 1859 in the harbour of Barcelona.

Ictíneo I

Ictíneo I was 7 m long with a beam

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