Just 30 years later, Don Walsh and Jacques Piccard plunged 25 times deeper in the untethered but awkward bathyscaphe Trieste, to the lowest place on Earth: the bottom of the Mariana Trench, 35,800 feet down. (discovermagazine.com)
Only two other vehicles have succeeded in reaching the trench: the U.S. Navy - operated bathyscaphe Trieste, which carried Jacques Piccard and Don Walsh there in 1960, and the Japanese - built robot Kaiko, which made three unmanned expeditions to the trench between 1995 and 1998. (whoi.edu)
Like Don Walsh and Jacques Piccard, who in 1960 descended into the Marianas Trench aboard the bathyscaphe Trieste, Antonio Conte is on a quest for depth. (sbnation.com)