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Jacques Piccard (28 July 1922 – 1 November 2008) was a Swiss oceanographer and engineer, known for having developed underwater submarines for studying ocean currents.
4 days ago · Jacques Piccard was a Swiss oceanic engineer, economist, and physicist, who helped his father, Auguste Piccard, build the bathyscaphe for deep-sea exploration and who also invented the mesoscaphe, an undersea vessel for exploring middle depths.
May 27, 2018 · Jacques Piccard and his father Auguste designed the Trieste, a deep sea bathyscaphe that dived to the Mariana Trench – the deepest part of any ocean in the world. All That's Interesting history
Jacques Piccard was a Swiss oceanographer and engineer. He was born on July 28, 1922 in Brussels, Belgium. His father, Auguste Piccard, was an adventurer who had set two records for reaching the highest altitude in a balloon in 1931 and 1932.
Jan 23, 2020 · On January 23, 1960, the Swiss oceanographer Jacques Piccard and his American co-adventurer Don Walsh dived to the bottom of the deepest underwater trench in the world, the Mariana Trench in...
Nov 3, 2008 · Swiss deep-sea explorer and engineer Jacques Piccard, who reached the deepest depths of the world's oceans and pioneered the construction of deep-diving submersibles, died this weekend at the...
Nov 1, 2008 · GENEVA (AP) — 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.
Jacques Ernest Jean Piccard was born July 28, 1922, in Brussels, Belgium. His career as an ocean engineer and explorer began with the aeronautical exploits of his father, Auguste, a physicist who became interested in balloons as a way of studying cosmic rays in the upper atmosphere.
The U.S. Navy bathyscaph Trieste —carrying Swiss engineer Jacques Piccard and U.S. Navy Lieutenant Don Walsh—reached a record depth of 35,797 feet. The Trieste was designed and constructed by Jacques Piccard and his father, Auguste, in Italy and acquired by the U.S. Navy in 1958.
Nov 5, 2008 · Jacques Piccard was a Swiss hydronaut and oceanographer and a pioneer of deep-sea exploration. In January 1960 he and Lieutenant Don Walsh of the US Navy plunged 10,900 metres...
