In January 1960, the Bathyscaphe Trieste descended 36,000 feet into the Challenger Deep - Earth's lowest known point. The pressure was an unthinkable 16,000 psi, enough to flatten a modern sub ...

Manned by Jacques Piccard, son of the bathyscaph’s inventor, Auguste Piccard, and Lieut. Don Walsh, the Trieste took 4 hr. 48 min. to settle slowly down to the Pacific Ocean’s bottom, landing ...

The bathyscaph was a deep submergence vehicle, or DSV, invented by Swiss physicist Auguste Piccard. It was no ordinary submarine. In fact, Trieste had been further described as a deep-diving ...

Created by Auguste and Jacques Piccard, an enterprising scientific father-son duo from Switzerland, Trieste first reached U.S. Navy hands in 1958.

He became obsessed with fuel. "Fuel is limitation," he said. "I don't like limitations. I wanted to be able to fly forever." Auguste Piccard, Bertrand's grandfather, is shown delivering a physics ...

The Trieste is Professor Auguste Piccard’s newest “bathyscaphe.”* On the surface she looks vaguely like a ship, but she is really an underwater balloon designed to sail the depths of the sea ...

GENEVA — Jacques Piccard, a scientist and underwater explorer who plunged deeper beneath the ocean than any other man, died Saturday, his son's company said. He was 86.

Auguste Piccard, with his gangly frame, high forehead, and bespectacled gaze, doesn’t fit the classic mold of a hardy explorer capable of withstanding some of the most extreme conditions on ...

Piccard’s grandfather, Swiss inventor Auguste Piccard, defied common beliefs to create the first high-altitude hot air balloon and became the first person to enter the stratosphere.