Piccard’s “Trieste”

In 1960, the U. S. Navy and Swiss inventor Auguste Piccard developed the bathyscaphe “Trieste.” This “underwater balloon” took Jacques Piccard and Lt. Donald Walsh to the bottom of the Mariannas Trench. They proved that life can exist even in the greatest depths of the oceans.

In 1960, the U. S. Navy and Swiss inventor Auguste Piccard developed the bathyscaphe “Trieste.” This “underwater balloon” took Jacques Piccard and Lt. Donald Walsh to the bottom of the Mariannas Trench. They proved that life can exist even in the greatest depths of the oceans.