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Trieste in inauguration day parade, Washington, D. C.

Trieste in inauguration day parade, Washington, D. C.
Trieste in inauguration day parade, Washington, D. C.
Trieste in inauguration day parade, Washington, D. C.
Trieste in inauguration day parade, Washington, D. C.
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U. S. Navy
Trieste in inauguration day parade, Washington, D. C.
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01/20/1961
archives/trieste-6.tif
Date: 1/20/1961
Navy segment of parade on 15th St.
Image of The Day caption:
On January 20, 1961, and in the midst of the Cold War, the bathyscaphe Trieste rolls down Pennsylvania Avenue in the Inauguration Day parade in Washington, D.C. The float celebrates the brief visit to the Challenger Deep (the deepest known part of the ocean) made by Jacques Piccard and Lieutenant Don Walsh had in 1960. That event helped provide a last bit of motivation for the U.S. Navy, and ultimately WHOI, to build Alvin. Today, WHOI engineers and scientists are planning to go back to the Mariana Trench for a better, more thorough look.
Image of The Day caption (04/14/2010):
On January 20, 1961, in the midst of the Cold War, the bathyscaphe Trieste rolls down Pennsylvania Avenue in the Inauguration Day parade in Washington, D.C. The float celebrated the brief visit to the Challenger Deep (the deepest known part of the ocean) made by Jacques Piccard and Lieutenant Don Walsh in 1960. Festivities are planned in Washington D.C. again this week to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the dive. Nereus, a deep-sea robotic vehicle designed and built at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, will be on display alongside the Trieste in the Navy Yard museum to commemorate its June 2009 expedition to the trench.
Photo courtesy of U.S. Navy and WHOI Archives
© Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
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