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.
- - 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.
- - The pioneering voyage of HMS Challenger. The 1872–76 Challenger expedition that founded the science of oceanography.
- - Deep-sea geology rocks: Mud samples reveal the history of earthquakes and tsunamis. MBARI (Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute)
- - The Challenger Expedition. A detailed account of the four-year voyage that first sounded the deep ocean.
- - 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. Captain Cousteau and his ship the Calypso visit the Red Sea, the Indian Ocean and the Gulf of Aden in order to study shark behavior and to test methods of protecting shipwreck and air crash victims from shark attacks. Ichthyologist Dr.
- - The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau - E05 - Unexpected Voyage of Pepito and Cristobal. Captain Cousteau and the crew of the Calypso take two young wild fur seals aboard off the Cape of Good Hope. During an Atlantic crossing, the men begin to establish a relationship of trust and friendship with the mammals.
- - Ocean Watch | A Story of Deep Sea Exploration. Our planet’s Ocean, a realm shrouded in mystery, covers more than 70% of the Earth’s surface, yet a staggering 95% remains virtually unexplored and unknown. These waters hold secrets more fascinating than our wildest imaginings and biodiversity that rivals the densest rainforests’ richness.
- - 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