The Explorers & Expeditions
The people and voyages that opened the deep — HMS Challenger (1872–76), William Beebe, Jacques Piccard & Don Walsh, Jacques Cousteau, and the modern record-breakers.
Part of Deep-Sea Exploration
22 moments in this segment.
- — The Challenger Expedition. A detailed account of the four-year voyage that first sounded the deep ocean.
- — The pioneering voyage of HMS Challenger. The 1872–76 Challenger expedition that founded the science of oceanography.
- — HMS Challenger. The Royal Navy corvette HMS Challenger, whose 1872–76 voyage founded modern oceanography.
- — Piccard & Walsh aboard Trieste. Jacques Piccard and Don Walsh, the first humans to reach the deepest point in the ocean, 23 January 1960.
- — Jacques-Yves Cousteau. The co-inventor of the Aqua-Lung, whose ship Calypso and films brought the ocean deep into living rooms worldwide.
- — Sylvia Earle — ‘Her Deepness’. The pioneering oceanographer Sylvia Earle, who set a solo-dive depth record in a JIM suit and became a champion of the deep ocean.
- — Bathysphere and Beyond. William Beebe and Otis Barton’s 1930s bathysphere dives — the first humans to observe deep-sea life alive.
- — Don Walsh and Jacques Piccard reach the bottom of the ocean. The 1960 Trieste descent to the Challenger Deep — the deepest crewed dive in history at the time.
- — Savage World of the Coral Jungle, Episode 3 of 37, Jacques Cousteau Odyssey. The real Life Aquatic. Adventure - People
- — Scenes from Calypso Deep. Caladan Oceanic revisits the deep named for Cousteau’s ship Calypso.
- — Ocean’s deepest point conquered. Guinness World Records on Victor Vescovo’s record-breaking full-ocean-depth dives.
- — Deep-sea geology rocks: Mud samples reveal the history of earthquakes and tsunamis. MBARI (Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute)
- — Victor Vescovo explores all five deeps. The Five Deeps Expedition — the first person to reach the deepest point of all five oceans.
- — Dropped to the bottom of the ocean in a steel sphere. The story of the bathysphere and the men who rode it into the dark.
- — The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau - E01 - Sharks - Documentary. Deep in the Undergrowth
- — The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau - E05 - Unexpected Voyage of Pepito and Cristobal. Deep in the Undergrowth
- — Ocean Watch | A Story of Deep Sea Exploration. Schmidt Ocean Institute
- — Sylvia Earle | "Her Deepness", Explorer -- IIA Studio Talk. Ideas In Action
- — Challenger’s legacy: discoveries from the deep. How the Challenger expedition’s dredges and soundings revealed a living deep sea.
- — Descending to 10,900 m in the Mariana Trench. The feat of reaching the deepest point on Earth, told through the Trieste dive.
- — Oceanic research with the Cousteau diving saucer (1965). Jacques Cousteau’s SP-350 ‘diving saucer’, an early manoeuvrable deep-diving craft.
- — Rolex presents: Sylvia Earle – Guardian of the Deep. ROLEX
