Trieste made its historic descent into the depths of the Mariana Trench in January 1960. Three months later, the CIA’s U2 spy ...

Yesterday, at the U.S. Naval Academy, two ships were named after explorers USN Capt. Don Walsh and retired USN Cmdr. Victor Vescovo: the T-AGOS 25 and T-AGOS 26.

But despite the challenges, humans have indeed ventured to the very bottom. In fact, the legendary bathyscaphe Trieste made it there a full nine years before Apollo 11 took flight, and the ...

On 23 January, 1960, the then US Navy officer, accompanied by Swiss national Jacques Piccard, made the first crewed dive to the floor of Earth's deepest ocean trench using the bathyscaphe Trieste.