Boats - Sailing - Ships
Aug. 08, 1953 - Prof. Piccard Goes under the sea to a depth of 3.450 feet.: Professor Piccard, the Swiss physicist, accompanied by his son, Jacques, recently made his first deep-sea dive in bathysphere Triesto, and succeeded in reaching a depth of 1, 052 metres (3, 450 feet). The point of descent was a few miles off Capri, the bathysphere having been towed there during the night from its base at Castellamare that the bathyspheres reached the sea bottom. Photo shows view of the Yriesto - Professor Piccard's bathysphere - after the dive in the Tyrrganian Sea
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13166218
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46153816
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