bathyscaphe Trieste

E5140

The bathyscaphe Trieste was a deep-diving research submersible that in 1960 carried Jacques Piccard and Don Walsh on the first crewed descent to the deepest known point in Earth’s oceans.

All labels observed (4)

Label Occurrences
bathyscaphe Trieste canonical 9
Trieste bathyscaphe 1
Trieste bathyscaphe design 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf bathyscaphe
crewed submersible
deep-diving research submersible
builtIn Italy
buoyancyMaterial gasoline
carried Don Walsh
Jacques Piccard
coDesigner Jacques Piccard
constructionSite Trieste, Italy
countryOfOrigin Switzerland
crewCapacity 2
crewMember Don Walsh
Jacques Piccard
dateOfRecordDive 1960-01-23
designer Auguste Piccard
displayedAt National Museum of the United States Navy
firstCrewedDescentTo Challenger Deep
hasCrewPosition observer
pilot
hullType pressure sphere
launchYear 1953
length about 15 metres
about 50 feet
locationOfRecordDive Challenger Deep
Mariana Trench
maximumOperatingDepth over 10,000 metres
mission first crewed descent to the deepest known point in Earth’s oceans
namedAfter Italian city of Trieste
notableAchievement first crewed vessel to reach Challenger Deep
record-setting deep-sea dive in 1960
operator United States Navy
partOf Office of Naval Research
surface form: U.S. Navy deep-submergence program
pressureSphereDiameter about 2.16 metres
about 7.1 feet
pressureSphereMaterial steel
previousOwner Swiss Navy
propulsion electric motors
purchasedBy United States Navy
reachedDepth about 10,911 metres
about 35,797 feet
recordContext deepest known point in Earth’s oceans
recordHeld deepest crewed dive record
recordHeldFrom 1960
safetyFeature ballast release system
thick-walled pressure sphere
serviceBranch United States Navy
status retired
usedFor deep-ocean exploration
oceanographic research

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (12)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Mariana Trench exploredBy bathyscaphe Trieste
Jacques Piccard knownFor bathyscaphe Trieste
Jacques Piccard coPiloted bathyscaphe Trieste
Jacques Piccard notableWork bathyscaphe Trieste
this entity surface form: Trieste deep-sea dives
Challenger Deep visitedByVessel bathyscaphe Trieste
Challenger Deep firstCrewedDescentVehicle bathyscaphe Trieste
Auguste Piccard notableWork bathyscaphe Trieste
this entity surface form: Trieste bathyscaphe design
Don Walsh coPiloted bathyscaphe Trieste
Don Walsh vehicleUsed bathyscaphe Trieste
DSV Deepsea Challenger relatedTo bathyscaphe Trieste
FNRS-1 bathyscaphe followedBy bathyscaphe Trieste
subject surface form: FNRS-1
this entity surface form: Trieste bathyscaphe
the Mariana Trench region visitedByVessel bathyscaphe Trieste
subject surface form: Mariana Trench region