Explorers & Expeditions
The people and voyages that opened the deep, HMS Challenger (1872–76), William Beebe, Jacques Piccard & Don Walsh, Jacques Cousteau, and the modern record-breakers.
Part of Deep-Sea Exploration
22 moments in this segment.
- - The Challenger Expedition. A detailed account of the four-year voyage that first sounded the deep ocean.
- - The pioneering voyage of HMS Challenger. The 1872–76 Challenger expedition that founded the science of oceanography.
- - HMS Challenger. The Royal Navy corvette HMS Challenger, whose 1872–76 voyage founded modern oceanography.
- - Piccard & Walsh aboard Trieste. Jacques Piccard and Don Walsh, the first humans to reach the deepest point in the ocean, 23 January 1960.
- - Jacques-Yves Cousteau. The co-inventor of the Aqua-Lung, whose ship Calypso and films brought the ocean deep into living rooms worldwide.
- - Sylvia Earle - ‘Her Deepness’. The pioneering oceanographer Sylvia Earle, who set a solo-dive depth record in a JIM suit and became a champion of the deep ocean.
- - Bathysphere and Beyond. William Beebe and Otis Barton’s 1930s bathysphere dives, the first humans to observe deep-sea life alive.
- - Don Walsh and Jacques Piccard reach the bottom of the ocean. The 1960 Trieste descent to the Challenger Deep, the deepest crewed dive in history at the time.
- - Savage World of the Coral Jungle, Episode 3 of 37, Jacques Cousteau Odyssey. The real Life Aquatic. Adventure - People
- - Scenes from Calypso Deep. Caladan Oceanic revisits the deep named for Cousteau’s ship Calypso.
- - Ocean’s deepest point conquered. Guinness World Records on Victor Vescovo’s record-breaking full-ocean-depth dives.
- - Deep-sea geology rocks: Mud samples reveal the history of earthquakes and tsunamis. MBARI (Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute)
- - Victor Vescovo explores all five deeps. The Five Deeps Expedition, the first person to reach the deepest point of all five oceans.
- - Dropped to the bottom of the ocean in a steel sphere. The story of the bathysphere and the men who rode it into the dark.
- - The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau - E01 - Sharks - Documentary. Deep in the Undergrowth
- - The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau - E05 - Unexpected Voyage of Pepito and Cristobal. Deep in the Undergrowth
- - Ocean Watch | A Story of Deep Sea Exploration. Schmidt Ocean Institute
- - Sylvia Earle | "Her Deepness", Explorer -- IIA Studio Talk. Ideas In Action
- - Challenger’s legacy: discoveries from the deep. How the Challenger expedition’s dredges and soundings revealed a living deep sea.
- - Descending to 10,900 m in the Mariana Trench. The feat of reaching the deepest point on Earth, told through the Trieste dive.
- - Oceanic research with the Cousteau diving saucer (1965). Jacques Cousteau’s SP-350 ‘diving saucer’, an early manoeuvrable deep-diving craft.
- - Rolex presents: Sylvia Earle - Guardian of the Deep. ROLEX
