Seven Miles Down, by J Piccard and R S Dietz

Seven Miles Down, The story of the bathyscaph Trieste
Jacques Piccard and Robert S Dietz

History was made when the Trieste bathyscaph carried Jacques Piccard an Don Walsh to the bottom of the Challenger Deep off Guam. This book covers the Trieste’s dives in the Mediterranean in the 1950s to the purchase of the Trieste by the US Navy and the ultra deep dives of Project Nekton – seven miles down.

Hardback with dust jacket. Good condition. Slight rubbing to the edges of the dust jacket.

249 pages
Two 16-page sections of black and white photographs
145 mm x 210 mm (5.75 in x 8.25 in)
1962, Longmans