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Deepsea Challenger (DCV 1) was a 7.3-metre (24 ft) deep-diving submersible designed to reach the bottom of the Challenger Deep, the deepest-known point on Earth.On 26 March 2012, Canadian film director James Cameron piloted the craft to accomplish this goal in the second crewed dive reaching the Challenger Deep.
Kelly Walsh after completing an 11,000m dive to Challenger Deep, the deepest location on Earth, in 2020 (Mike Moore / EYOS Experience) Mr Walsh became the 11th person to make a successful dive to ...
23 January 1960: the Bathyscaphe Trieste just before the record dive. Behind her is the USS Lewis Don Walsh and Jacques Piccard inside the Bathyscaphe Trieste. Project Nekton was the codename for a series of very shallow test dives (three of them in Apra Harbor) and also deep-submergence operations in the Pacific Ocean near Guam that ended with the United States Navy-owned research bathyscaphe ...
The Bathysphere on display at the National Geographic museum in 2009. The Bathysphere (from Ancient Greek βαθύς (bathús) 'deep' and σφαῖρα (sphaîra) 'sphere') was a unique spherical deep-sea submersible which was unpowered and lowered into the ocean on a cable, and was used to conduct a series of dives off the coast of Bermuda from 1930 to 1934.
General arrangement, showing the key features. Trieste was designed by the Swiss scientist Auguste Piccard, based on his previous experience with the bathyscaphe FNRS-2.The term bathyscaphe refers to its capacity to dive and manoeuvre untethered to a ship in contrast to a bathysphere, bathys being ancient Greek meaning "deep" and scaphe being a light, bowl-shaped boat. [3]
The term "dive bar" doesn't always signify a saloon of questionable reputation. Many watering hole owners are embracing a new definition: a no-frills establishment where you can find a stiff drink ...
L & L Tavern is a bar at 3207 N. Clark Street (at Belmont Avenue), in the Lakeview neighborhood in Chicago. It was named one of the best dive bars in the country by Stuff Magazine. [1] When it opened was by Paul Gillon in the 1950s, the bar was called the Columbia Tavern & Liquors. Its current name comes from prior owners Lefty (John Miller ...
The Challenger Deep is located in the Western Pacific Ocean near the island of Guam in the Mariana Trench, the deepest known part of an ocean on Earth, and the deepest known location on Earth. [5] The May 2009 dive by the Nereus achieved a depth of 10,902 metres (35,768 ft), making it the world's deepest-diving vehicle then in operation, and ...