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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 his bathysphere Trieste, and succeeded in reaching a depth of 1, 052 metres, (3, 450 feet). The point of descene was a few miles south of Capri, the bathysphere having been towed there during the night from its base at castellammare di Stabia. Professor Piccard said afterwards that the bathysphere reached the sea bottom. Photo shows Professor Piccard, wearing his bifocal spectacles seen after the dive

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Afterwards Bathysphere Capri Castellammare Deep-sea Depth Dive Piccard Prof Reached Reaching Stabia Succeeded Towed Trieste

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