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Bathyscaphe Trieste I
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Is hoisted out of the water in a tropical port, circa 1958-59, soon after her purchase by the Navy.
Photograph was released by the U.S. Navy Electronics Laboratory, San Diego, California. |
Bathyscaphe Trieste I
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| Is hoisted from the water by a floating crane, during testing by the Naval Electronics Laboratory in the San Diego, California, area.
Trieste was being prepared for transportation to the Marianas Islands for a three-month series of deep-submergence operations. On 2 October 1959, she was loaded on the frieghter Santa Maria for the trip to the mid-Pacific. |
Bathyscaphe Trieste II
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Trieste II reconfigured with a new float to support a new and larger battery and propulsion system. This configuration went on the second survey of the Thresher SSN-593 wreckage, circa mid 1964 at Mare Island, California.
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Bathyscaphe Trieste I
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The bathyscaphe Trieste being towed back to the
shipyard in 1958 after a series of successful acoustical
dives as a part of the Naval Research's program in
oceanography. |
Dr. Andreas Rechnitzer and Jacques Piccard
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Dr. Andreas Rechnitzer and Jacques Piccard by the
coning tower of the bathyscaphe Trieste in 1959
after the world record dive of 35,800 feet off Guam.
The Trieste was used as part of Naval Research's
program of oceanography.
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