Trieste

[luis]

Here is THE Trieste:










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The Trieste is on display in the National Museum of the U.S. Navy (in the Washington Navy Yard, DC), retired after a total of 128 dives (including the successful location of the U.S.S. Thresher in 1963).

[DaveMann]

The picture below is on line.

The Trieste is on display in the National Museum of the U.S. Navy (in the Washington Navy Yard, DC), retired after a total of 128 dives (including the successful location of the U.S.S. Thresher in 1963).

That looks like Alvin in the upper left corner. He found the lost H bomb in 1966.

[Bronze06]

The picture below is on line.

The Trieste is on display in the National Museum of the U.S. Navy (in the Washington Navy Yard, DC), retired after a total of 128 dives (including the successful location of the U.S.S. Thresher in 1963).

That looks like Alvin in the upper left corner. He found the lost H bomb in 1966.

Wow, thanks for pointing that out. The ORIGINAL ALVIN. I remember seeing it on NG specials back in the late 60s and early 70s. No offence, but the Alvin is far more famous in my book. Wood Hole Oceanographic Institute still has a 2nd or third gen. sub called the Alvin I believe.

[luis]

No offense taken, but we do have a double hose regulator named after the Trieste… I don’t know of anything that has been named after the Alvin (maybe a chipmunk )… I am just saying…


I did see the Alvin and a lot of other extremely cool stuff in the National Museum of the U.S. Navy and the Cold War Museum next to it. I like these types of museums a lot and Christine and I determined that we have to go back to these ones.

Earlier this year I also had the chance to go to the Naval Undersea Museum (in Keyport, WA) and the Puget Sound Navy Museum (in Bremerton, WA). I highly recommend all of the above.

In the Naval Undersea Museum I saw the Trieste II (a very similar, but somewhat different design). There were also all kinds of cool stuff.

If you ever go with me, be prepared to spend a lot of time. I can take a lot of time reading the labels on the exhibits (as Ryan found out).

[SurfLung]

Wow. I would not have expected the original Trieste to still be around. Here's what I got from Wiki...

Trieste is a Swiss-designed, Italian-built deep-diving research bathyscaphe, which with its crew of two reached a record maximum depth of about 10,911 metres (35,797 ft), in the deepest known part of the Earth's oceans, the Challenger Deep, in the Mariana Trench near Guam in the Pacific. On 23 January 1960, Jacques Piccard (son of the boat's designer Auguste Piccard) and US Navy Lieutenant Don Walsh achieved the goal of Project Nekton.