Trieste (bathyscaphe)

High school (ages 12+)
Transportation

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1. How deep is Trieste (bathyscaphe)?10,916 meters (35,814 feet)
2. What is the vehicle type?Swiss-designed, Italian-built deep-diving bathyscaphe
3. What is the primary designer?Auguste Piccard
4. What is the Trieste bathyscaphe?The Trieste is a special submarine that could dive deeper than any other human-made thing, reaching the deepest part of the ocean.
5. Who built the Trieste and when?It was built in Trieste, Italy, supervised by Dr. Pierre Willm and Georges Houot, and launched in 1953.

Bathyscaphe: A specialized submersible vessel designed for extreme deep-sea exploration, capable of independent operation at great depths.
Mariana Trench: The deepest oceanic trench on Earth, located in the western Pacific Ocean, with its deepest point being Challenger Deep.
Challenger Deep: The deepest known point within the Earth's oceans, situated at the southern end of the Mariana Trench.
Hadal Zone: The deepest ecological region of the ocean, typically found in oceanic trenches below 6,000 meters (20,000 feet).