Bathyscaphe TRIESTE, Marianas Trench map

Object summary

Title: Bathyscaphe TRIESTE, Marianas Trench map
Object ID: HEE-SC-08550
Date made: 1981-02-
Place made: United States
Maker: Edgerton, Harold Eugene
Object type: Color slide
Major collection: Technology; Photography
Named collection: Harold E. Edgerton Collection
On view: No

Description

Profile of the sea bottom of Marianas Trench where Don Walsh and Jacques Piccard in the bathyscaphe TRIESTE reached the deepest point of the oceans in Jan. 1960; reproduction image from an article in National Geographic Magazine (Jacques Piccard, "Man's Deepest Dive," vol. 118 (August 1960): 224-239). (CC)