Plunging into the deep, dark abyss of the Pacific Oceanās Mariana Trench, U.S. Navy Lt. Don Walsh and Swiss engineer Jacques Piccard heard a loud cracking sound in their vesselāthe bathyscaphe Trieste, which the Office of Naval Research (ONR) purchased for scientific observations.Already 30,000 feet below sea level, Walsh and Piccard faced the ultimate decisionārisk their lives to become the first people to travel to the deepest part of the oceanā¦
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