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On January 23, 1960, Swiss ocean explorer Jacques Piccard and U.S. Navy Lt.Don Walsh descended to the bottom of the Challenger Deep of the Marianas Trench (200 miles southwest of Guam), the deepest place on Earth, in a submersible named:

  1. the 'Alvin' submersible

  2. the 'Trieste' bathyscape

  3. the Bathysphere

  4. the 'Nautilus' submarine
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B Correct answer
Explanation

The Trieste was a Swiss-designed bathyscape that reached the bottom of the Challenger Deep in 1960. Alvin is a famous American submersible but came later. The Bathysphere was an earlier deep-sea observation sphere. Nautilus typically refers to submarines or the fictional vessel from 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.

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