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During the winter of 1959-60, the US Navy undertook deep ocean dives under the code name Project Nekton. On a wave-tossed January morning, Swiss scientist Jacques Piccard and USN Lieutenant Don Walsh boarded Trieste, a bathyscaphe designed by Piccard’s own father, Auguste. The pair would spend almost 5 hours descending into the unexplored abyss of the Challenger Deep -- the deepest known part of any ocean, located off the coast of Guam near the southern end of the Mariana Trench. During that record-setting manned dive of 35,797 ft. beneath the surface, Walsh and Piccard’s only companion was the deepening sea. Outside, the daylight faded away completely as pressure steadily increased on the submersible to more than 1,000 times normal. They became the first two men ever to cross into the Hadal Zone -- the sunless deep ocean that also makes up earth’s largest, least explored habitat. As they passed 30,000 feet beneath, what sounded like a small explosion rocked the entire sub -- one of Trieste’s outer plexiglas windows cracked under the pressure. But Trieste maintained integrity. When communication with the surface was lost, Walsh and Piccard were left to drift downward in silence at a constant rate of 3 ft./sec. Walsh and Piccard became the first and only two humans to ever visit Earth’s most deeply submerged and secluded place. The “Trieste” E.P. is an instrumental dramatization of this unique and historic achievement in exploration. the entire EP can be downloaded and/or pu
