#bathyscaphe trieste

[abyssalaquarist00]

in 1960, Don Walsh and Jacques Piccard became the first people to reach the floor of the Mariana Trench in the bathyscaphe Trieste. Here's a study of them, that I won't finish.

[timespanner]

The world's deepest dive

In 1960 two engineers became the first people to ever dive 11km to the bottom of the Mariana Trench.

[papercraftsquare]

New Paper Craft: Bathyscaphe Trieste Free Paper Model Download

New Papercraft has been published at PaperCraftSquare: Link: http://www.papercraftsquare.com/bathyscaphe-trieste-free-paper-model-download.html Paper Craft Name: Bathyscaphe Trieste Free Paper Model Download Description:

This paper model is the Bathyscaphe Trieste, a Swiss-designed, Italian-built deep-diving research bathyscaphe, which with her crew of two 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 in the Pacific, the papercraft is created by [unknown].

On 23 January 1960, Jacques Piccard and US Navy Lieutenant Don Walsh achieved the goal of Project Nekton. Trieste was the first manned vessel to have reached the bottom of the Challenger Deep. For further information please click here.

You can download this papercraft template here: Bathyscaphe Trieste Free Paper Model Download [Box] [Gavitex]

For More infomaion please click on: http://www.papercraftsquare.com/bathyscaphe-trieste-free-paper-model-download.html More papercrafts, paper models, paper toys at PaperCraftSquare.com

[papercraftsquare]

New Paper Craft: Bathyscaphe Trieste Free Paper Model Download

New Papercraft has been published at PaperCraftSquare: Link: http://www.papercraftsquare.com/bathyscaphe-trieste-free-paper-model-download.html Paper Craft Name: Bathyscaphe Trieste Free Paper Model Download Description:

This paper model is the Bathyscaphe Trieste, a Swiss-designed, Italian-built deep-diving research bathyscaphe, which with her crew of two 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 in the Pacific, the papercraft is created by [unknown].

On 23 January 1960, Jacques Piccard and US Navy Lieutenant Don Walsh achieved the goal of Project Nekton. Trieste was the first manned vessel to have reached the bottom of the Challenger Deep. For further information please click here.

You can download this papercraft template here: Bathyscaphe Trieste Free Paper Model Download [Box] [Gavitex]

For More infomaion please click on: http://www.papercraftsquare.com/bathyscaphe-trieste-free-paper-model-download.html More papercrafts, paper models, paper toys at PaperCraftSquare.com

[glitterboots]

The first people to go to the bottom of Challenger Deep, aka the lowest point of the Marianas Trench, were insane. The entire concept is fucking terrifying. But also really really cool. 

[semioticapocalypse]

A full scale model of Bathyscaphe Trieste at JFK’s Inaugural Day parade. 18th January 1961 [::SemAp FB || SemAp G+::]

[downtowncamera]

It was on this day, in 1960, that man first went to the bottom of the Earth.  Located off the coast of Guam in the Mariana Trench, the Challenger Deep is the deepest known part in the world's oceans, and was first visited by Jacques Piccard and Don Walsh (pictured) aboard the vessel known as the Bathyscaphe Trieste.  The onboard measuring equipment identified the depth as being 11,521 meters (37,799 feet) below sea level, although that number has fluctuated with more recent measurements.  Descending at a rate of 0.9 meters per second, the voyage to the bottom took 4 hours and 48 minutes, which went rather smoothly with the exception of a crack in the exterior plexiglass viewing window shook the entire vessel near the 9000 meter mark.  Upon reaching the bottom, the crew nourished themselves on a bounty of chocolate bars (not to be confused with the tasty coconut flavored Bounty brand chocolate bars), where they unexpectedly regained communication with their surface ship, the USS Wandank.  Communications between the two vessels was set at a mile per second, but nonetheless required seven seconds to transmit.  While on the surface of the seabed, the two adventurers observed flounders and small sole fish, confirming that vertebrate's can withstand the immense pressure at depths of this magnitude.  No other manned craft would return to this depth until 2012's descent of the Deepsea Challenger accomplished by film maker James Cameron (which we covered earlier, last year).

Edit: Piccard's account on their experience at the bottom of the ocean, ""... And as we were settling this final fathom, I saw a wonderful thing. Lying on the bottom just beneath us was some type of flatfish, resembling a sole, about 1 foot long and 6 inches across. Even as I saw him, his two round eyes on top of his head spied us — a monster of steel — invading his silent realm. Eyes? Why should he have eyes? Merely to see phosphorescence? The floodlight that bathed him was the first real light ever to enter this hadal realm. Here, in an instant, was the answer that biologists had asked for the decades. Could life exist in the greatest depths of the ocean? It could! And not only that, here apparently, was a true, bony teleost fish, not a primitive ray or elasmobranch. Yes, a highly evolved vertebrate, in time's arrow very close to man himself. Slowly, extremely slowly, this flatfish swam away. Moving along the bottom, partly in the ooze and partly in the water, he disappeared into his night. Slowly too — perhaps everything is slow at the bottom of the sea — Walsh and I shook hands."

[tengloomysentiments]

Only two humans have journeyed to the ocean's lowest known deepest point at Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench. 

Jacques Piccard (center) and Lt. Don Walsh (left) are complete badasses!