494-bathyscaphe-trieste-dixon –The Trieste is a Swiss-designed, Italian-built deep-diving research bathyscaphe ("deep boat") with a crew of two, which reached a record maximum depth of about 10,911 metres (35,797 ft), in the deepest known part of the Earth's oceans, the Challenger Deep, in the Mariana Trench near Guam, on 23 January 1960, crewed by Jacques Piccard (son of the boat's designer Auguste Piccard) and U.S. Navy Lieutenant Don Walsh achieving the goal of Project Nekton.Trieste was the first manned vessel to have reached the bottom of Challenger Deep. The vessel is on display in the parking lot of the U.S. Naval National Undersea Museum, right next to the Naval Undersea Warfare School in Keyport, Washington.
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