The U.S. Navy bathyscaphe <i>Trieste</i>, just before her record dive to the bottom of the Marianas Trench, 23 January 1960. The waves were were about 1,5 to 1,8 m high when scientist Jacques Piccard and Lt. Don Walsh, USN, and Piccard boarded from the rubber raft attached to the bathyscaphe. The destroyer escort USS <i>Lewis</i> (DE-535) is steaming by in the background.
23 January 1960<div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1960-01-23T00:00:00Z/11</div>
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