The bathysphere—bathys is Greek for "deep"—was developed in the early 1930s by William Beebe and Otis Barton, two explorers from the New York Zoological Society. It was a 4,500-pound hollow steel ball ...

WASHINGTON NAVY YARD – The Navy officer who took a manned submersible to the deepest part of the ocean in 1960 said it would have been impossible without the steady financial support by the Office of ...

Back from the deepest depths ever reached by man, Jacques Piccard and Lieut. Don Walsh flew into Washington last week to receive decorations from President Eisenhower, and to tell how it felt as the ...

In summer 1958, 27-year-old Navy Staff Lt. Don Walsh was assigned to the submarine tender Nereus, part of Submarine Flotilla 1 at the sub base on Point Loma. It was a safe, steady desk job, but less ...

The bathyscaphe Trieste as it appeared just before the record dive to the floor of the Marianas Trench. * Image: Courtesy of the U.S. Navy * 1960: The diving submersible Trieste descends to the floor ...

The Navy’s bathyscaph Trieste reached its goal last week: the bottom of the Marianas Trench, which is believed to be the deepest place in all the world’s oceans. Manned by Jacques Piccard, son of the ...

Both are Navy-owned deep submersibles. One was retired in 1963, while the other is still active. But their histories are related. The bathyscaph Trieste joined the U.S. Navy in 1958. Based at the ...

PanARMENIAN.Net - At 8 p.m. Moscow time another sitting of the commission for the investigation of the jet crash will be held in Sochi. As Armenian Ambassador to Russia Armen Smbatyan informed, the ...

REMEMBERING MY SHIPMATE JOHN MICHELWe met in January 1959 when I became the first Officer in Charge of the Navy’s newly acquired Bathyscaph Trieste and John was the first USN enlisted man to be ...