WASHINGTON NAVY YARD – The Navy officer who took a manned submersible to the deepest part of the ocean in 1960 said it would have been impossible without the steady financial support by the Office of Naval Research for oceanographic research. “ONR was generous to a fault [and] is underappreciated for this whole thing,” with the command buying the bathyscaph Trieste from Swiss inventor and scientist Auguste Piccard in 1957 and staying with the project over the years, Capt. Don Walsh said at a ceremony at the Washington Navy Yard commemorating the 60th anniversary of the dive to the bottom … Continue reading VIDEO: Navy Celebrates 60th Anniversary of Trieste Dive