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Navy Lt. Don Walsh (right) and Jacques Piccard wave after emerging from a daylong trip to the deepest point in the Pacific Ocean's Mariana Trench. The men descended nearly seven miles in the bathyscaphe (or diving vessel) Trieste on Jan. 23, 1960. Thomas J. Abercrombie/National Geographic Society hide caption

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