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23 January 1960: Two explorers dive to the deepest point of the ocean

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On 23 January 1960, Jacques Piccard and Don Walsh took the bathyscaphe Trieste to the bottom of the Challenger Deep in the Pacific's Mariana Trench, about 10,900 m down. The descent took almost five hours. They saw a flat-looking fish, proof that life survives at enormous pressure.