i was watching the movie ABYSS and I was wondering whats the deepest any man has dove?
2007-09-05 05:33:13 · 3 answers · asked by Indian Princess 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Trivia
With the experience of FNRS-2 Auguste Piccard and his son Jacques built the improved Bathyscaphe Trieste. Jacques Piccard made many dives, mainly off Italy, from 1954 on, before selling her to the U.S. Navy in 1957 for $250,000. On her 65th dive, the younger Piccard and Lt. Don Walsh of the U.S. Navy reached a depth 35,800 ft in the Mariana Trench, a few hundred miles from Guam, setting a new record. Jacques' book Seven Miles Down tells the full story of the FNRS-2 and Trieste.
Can't get much deeper than the Mariana Trench
2007-09-05 06:08:06 · answer #1 · answered by The Corinthian 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Trieste dove to the bottom of Challenger Deep in the Marianas. Nearly 7 miles deep. The Trieste used Gasoline for ballast because it is lighter than water. To surface it dropped steel plates. There was one window in the Trieste. It was 7" thick. 14" in dia. on the outside of the submersible and 2" on the inside. It cracked. That's pressure!
2007-09-05 22:04:03 · answer #2 · answered by spudfarmer 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it was when the titanic was discovered at the bottom of the atlantic ocean in about 1988.
2007-09-05 12:41:34 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋