Navy Bathyscaph Trieste Makes 37,800 Foot Dive, Various Locations

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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE OFFICE OF NEWS SERVICES THE PENTAGON, WASHINGTON 25, D.C. - LIBERTY 5-6700 AUDIO-VISUAL DIVISION - RADI0-TV-NEWSFILM SECTION ROOM 2E791 - EXTENSION 75111 DUPE NEGATIVE TO: (A) FINE GRAIN TO; Release No. 18-60 Footage: 75° 29 Jammy 1960 NAVY BATHYSCAPH TRIESTE MAKES 37,800 FOOT DIVE (Official Navy footage released by Department of Defense) The Havy's bathyscuph Trieste plunged to the bottom of the Maxianas french an all time depth record of the island of Gunm in the Pecific 23 January 1960. Havy Lieutenant Don Halsh of Sen Mago and Swiss Scientist Janques Piccard made the historic dive to 37,800 feet at a position 11° 19.7'N, 142° 12'E. Completing the third in a series of dives, Project Wekton is gathering scientific knowledge of sunlight penetzation, underweter visibility, transmission of mamade sounds, and marine geological studies of the trench. Assisting the Trieste in the tests series of dives are the ships USS LEWIS, commanded by It. Communder Daniel I. Banks, Jr., and USS WANDANK, commanded by Lieutemant A. W. Colley. Both ships are under the operational control of Commander Naval Forces Marienas. Sequences above: (a) Departure from harbor. (b) Being towed to sea by tugboat. (e) Throwing hand grenade overboard to check depth of water. This is used in conjunction with fathometer. (d) Trieste rolling in heavy seas. (e) Drieste with three mon standing on deck, writing to be picked up. NOTE TO EDITORS: Handed out to Telenous for servicing both IV and theatrical pool numbers. Fine grain to be forwarded to Army Pictorial Center, 35-11 35th Avenue, Long Island City 1, New York, within 48 hours. NOTE TO EDITORS: PLEASE CREDIT DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE IN TITLE OR COMMENTARY The fine grain master positive, released to the company designated above, is for duplication your and distribution to interested TV and Newsreel pool members. It is then to be returned within 72 hours to the Film Library, Army Pictorial Center, 35-11 35th Avenue, Long Island City 1, New York. The master positive must not be cut in any manner. A dupe negative is also for release to the company designated above for distribution to pool members so desiring for duplication purposes. Within 24 hours it will be delivered to DeLuxe Laboratories, 850 Tenth Avenue, New York, N. Y., telephone Circle 7-3220 where it will be avail- able to non-pool members and other authorized organizations which make satisfactory financial arrangements with DeLuxe Laboratories. The dupe negative must not be cut in any manner. E10575

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Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

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Filmed News Releases