{"id":4260,"date":"2012-03-11T08:00:15","date_gmt":"2012-03-11T12:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/?p=4260"},"modified":"2012-03-11T08:00:15","modified_gmt":"2012-03-11T12:00:15","slug":"the-bathyscaphe-trieste-and-captain-don-walsh-usn-ret","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/archives\/4260","title":{"rendered":"The Bathyscaphe Trieste and Captain Don Walsh, USN Ret."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With all the\u00a0hubbub over James Cameron&#8217;s planned dive to Challenger Deep, a little attention should be paid to the\u00a0\u00a0first and, at this point, only people to make it to the deepest point in the ocean: Auguste Piccard and then-Lieutenant Don Walsh. They did it in 1960 on the bathyscaphe Trieste.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.history.navy.mil\/photos\/sh-usn\/usnsh-t\/trste-b.htm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4261 aligncenter\" title=\"triestxsection\" src=\"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/triestxsection.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"518\" height=\"368\" srcset=\"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/triestxsection.jpg 740w, http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/triestxsection-300x212.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 518px) 100vw, 518px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">*<\/p>\n<p>The Trieste was, essentially, a dirigible. It was mainly\u00a0buoyancy cambers filled with gasoline (here water:gasoline::air:helium)\u00a0supporting\u00a0an untethered bathysphere; there&#8217;s a huge difference in compressibility between liquids and gases, so I&#8217;ll leave the blimp vs. zeppelin distinction alone. *saunters away, whistling*<\/p>\n<p>The point of this post is an\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2012\/03\/09\/148317355\/film-director-to-travel-to-bottom-of-mariana-trench\">interview NPR<\/a> did with Capt. Don Walsh. I was blown away. Check out his Wikipedia <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Don_Walsh\">bio<\/a> &#8211; adventure scientist extraordinaire &#8211; and yet in the interview (unsurprisingly),\u00a0humble\u00a0and thoughtful. I&#8217;d encourage folks to give him a listen either at the NPR link or <a href=\"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/DonWalshIntvu.mp3\">here<\/a>\u00a0(right click and save the mp3 locally).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With all the\u00a0hubbub over James Cameron&#8217;s planned dive to Challenger Deep, a little attention should be paid to the\u00a0\u00a0first and, at this point, only people to make it to the deepest point in the ocean: Auguste Piccard and then-Lieutenant Don &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/archives\/4260\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,14,17,27],"tags":[324,325,323],"class_list":["post-4260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creatures","category-making-things","category-nomadics","category-wunderkammer","tag-challenger-deep","tag-marianas-trench","tag-trieste"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdqxx-16I","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4260"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4272,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4260\/revisions\/4272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}