Rolex : 50th anniversary of Piccard's ba

50 years later, herve leger dresses this deep dive into uncharted waters not only remains an unmatched record but constitutes a milestone in underwater exploration and in increasing awareness of the need to better protect the oceans.

Date: January 23, 1960 Location: Pacific Ocean: The Mariana Trench, approximately 200 miles from the island of Guam Depth reached: 10,916 meters, ugg australia a feat unsurpassed to this day Scientific discovery: marine life thriving in the total absence of light

Fifty years ago, Rolex and the bathyscaphe Trieste made history when US Navy Lieutenant Don Walsh, accompanied by Swiss oceanographer Jacques Piccard, cheap wow gold piloted the US Navy vessel to the bottom of the Challenger Deep in the heart of the Mariana Trench, some 200 miles off the island of Guam in the Pacific Ocean. Strapped to the outside of the Swissdesigned submersible was a Rolex watch. A third-generation Rolex prototype of the Deep Sea Special was specifically engineered to withstand the tremendous pressure that would be encountered, Rolex approximately eight tons per square inch, at a depth of over 10,900 meters (35,000 feet) in the Challenger Deep.

When the Trieste and her intrepid crew of two surfaced over eight and a half hours later, they had completed the deepest wow gold dive ever undertaken by a vessel – manned or unmanned – and the Rolex Deep Sea Special was in perfect working condition. “Happy to announce that your watch works as well at 11,000 meters as it does on the surface”, Piccard wrote in a telegram addressed several days after the dive to the Rolex headquarters in Geneva.

Their successful voyage to the still deepest known place in the Earth’s oceans not only set a record that has never been broken, but also constituted an important milestone in the exploration and knowledge of the underwater world, an environment that was little known at the time despite its crucial role for man and his survival on earth.

Nearly seven miles below the surface, salvatore ferragamo shoes Walsh and Piccard used the light from their mercury vapor lamps to witness something never seen before: marine life at the very bottom of the ocean, previously believed to be unsustainable under such pressure and in the total absence of light. A discovery that astonished the global scientific community and contributed to increasing awareness of the need to better preserve our oceans.