Bathyscaphe Trieste
On 23 January 1960, she reached the ocean floor in the Challenger Deep (the deepest southern part of the Mariana Trench), carrying Jacques Piccard and Don Walsh. This was the first time a vessel, manned or unmanned, had reached the deepest known point of the Earth's oceans. The onboard systems indicated a depth of , although this was revised later to ; fairly recently, more accurate measurements have found Challenger Deep to be between and deep.
Jarrod Jablonski
Jablonski has been setting records for cave penetration for many years. In 1995 he and Geologist Todd Kincaid pushed the Manatee Springs cave system to . On April 25, 1997, Jablonski along with George Irvine and Brent Scarabin set a new penetration record of in Wakulla Springs. They utilized Halcyon semi-closed circuit rebreathers at an average depth of . In July 1998 Jablonski, again diving with Irvine and Scarabin traveled in Wakulla Springs O-Tunnel. Jablonski and his regular dive buddy WKPP director Casey McKinlay set a world record for the longest ever penetration on a cave dive, at while exploring "Q" tunnel of Wakulla Springs.
This record remains the longest penetration in a deep cave. The new record for the longest penetration at any depth is now held by Jon Bernot and Charlie Roberson of Gainesville, Florida, with a distance of .