Trieste (bathyscaphe)
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Trieste is a Swiss-designed, Italian-built deep-diving research bathyscaphe. In 1960, it became the first crewed vessel to reach the bottom of Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench, the deepest point
Trieste shortly after her purchase by the US Navy in 1958
Pressure sphere, with forward ballast hopper, left
Don Walsh and Jacques Piccard aboard Trieste
Trieste just before the Mariana dive 23 January 1960, seen escorted by USS Lewis
Challenger Deep
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The Challenger Deep is the deepest known point of the seabed of Earth, located in the western Pacific Ocean at the southern end of the Mariana Trench, in the ocean territory of the Federated States of
Trieste (bathyscaphe)
…Trieste is a Swiss-designed, Italian-built deep-diving research bathyscaphe. In 1960, it became the first crewed vessel to reach the bottom of Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench, the deepest point in Earth's seabed. The mission was the final goal for Project Nekton, a series of dives conducted by the United…
Chief Scientist Tom Gaskell, left, aboard HMS Challenger II, 1951
Research vessel Vityaz in Kaliningrad "Museum of world ocean"
The RV Hakuhō Maru
RV Yokosuka was used as the support ship for ROV Kaikō.