JACQUES PICCARD 3700 METERS BELOW THE SEA BATHYSCAPHE TRIESTE MARIANAS TRENCH 20754

1953

Trieste is a Swiss-designed, Italian-built deep-diving research bathyscaphe, which with her crew of two reached a record maximum depth of about 10,911 meters (35,797 ft), in the deepest known part of the Earth's oceans, the Challenger Deep, in the Mariana Trench near Guam in the Pacific. On 23 Janua