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    Pacific Ocean. Jacques Piccard was born in Brussels, Belgium, the son of Auguste Piccard, who was himself an adventurer and engineer. Jacques' father Auguste...
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    relatives, including Jacques Piccard, Bertrand Piccard, Jeannette Piccard and Don Piccard. Piccard and his twin brother Jean Felix Piccard were born in Basel...
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    Piccard was born in Lausanne, Switzerland. His grandfather Auguste Piccard was a balloonist and undersea explorer, and his father Jacques Piccard was...
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    The Auguste Piccard mesoscaphe, also known simply as the Mésoscaphe, was a crewed underwater submarine designed in 1964 by Jacques Piccard, son of Auguste...
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    bathyscaphe was designed by Swiss scientist Auguste Piccard, the father of pilot Jacques Piccard. It was built in Italy and first launched in 1953. The...
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  • Auguste Piccard (physicist, aeronaut, balloonist, hydronaut) Jacques Piccard (hydronaut) Bertrand Piccard (aeronaut, balloonist) Jean Felix Piccard (organic...
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    three 'pools' – Western, Central and Eastern. In 1960, Don Walsh and Jacques Piccard were the first two humans to reach Challenger Deep, completing that...
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  • include: Jules Piccard, a chemist and professor of chemistry Auguste Piccard, a physicist, aeronaut, balloonist, hydronaut Jacques Piccard, a hydronaut...
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    the Grumman/Piccard PX-15, is a crewed underwater submersible, built in 1968. It was the brainchild of explorer and inventor Jacques Piccard. The research...
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    Auguste Piccard (physicist, balloonist, hydronaut) Jacques Piccard (hydronaut) Bertrand Piccard (psychiatrist, balloonist) Jean Felix Piccard (organic...
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    through the use of sound, to manned deep-diving submersibles. In 1960, Jacques Piccard and United States Navy Lieutenant Donald Walsh descended in the bathyscaphe...
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    He was preceded by unmanned dives in 1995 and 2009, as well as by Jacques Piccard and Don Walsh, the first men to reach the bottom of the Mariana Trench...
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  • hydronaut Bertrand Piccard (born 1958), psychiatrist, balloonist, and solar plane pilot Don Piccard (1926–2020), balloonist Jacques Piccard (1922–2008), hydronaut...
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    marine policy specialist. While aboard the bathyscaphe Trieste, he and Jacques Piccard made a record maximum descent in the Challenger Deep on January 23...
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    floor in the trench piloted by Jacques Piccard (who co-designed the submersible along with his father, Auguste Piccard) and USN Lieutenant Don Walsh....
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    Rolex International Jumping Riders Club Top 10 Final competition. Jacques Piccard and Don Walsh had a specially designed experimental Rolex Oyster Perpetual...
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  • the ocean located in the Mariana Trench, was accomplished in 1960 by Jacques Piccard and Don Walsh. They reached a maximum depth of 10,911 metres (35,797 ft)...
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    Smith Wiley Post Walter Mitterholzer Paul-Emile Victor Auguste and Jacques Piccard The Longines Symphonette List of watch manufacturers In addition to...
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    Marshall W. Nirenberg George E. Palade Arthur B. Pardee David Phillips Jacques Piccard Jens J. Pindborg Comlan A. A. Quenum Hermann Rahn G. N. Ramachandran...
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    but by 1960 a self-powered submersible, Trieste developed by Jacques Piccard, took Piccard and Don Walsh to the deepest part of the Earth's oceans, the...
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    Challenger Deep (the deepest southern part of the Mariana Trench), carrying Jacques Piccard (son of Auguste) and Lieutenant Don Walsh, USN. This was the first...
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  • Israeli ambassador to the UN Pollution, genetic engineering, plague Jacques Piccard; Institut International d'Ecologie Albert Rosenfield; author of The...
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  • laboratory" organisation. It is headed by French architect Jacques Rougerie, oceanographer Jacques Piccard and astronaut Jean-Loup Chrétien. In 2012 the cost...
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    reached the bottom at 1:06 pm on 23 January 1960, with Don Walsh and Jacques Piccard on board. Iron shot was used for ballast, with gasoline for buoyancy...
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    Cousteau and the Élie Monnier then took part in the rescue of Professor Jacques Piccard's bathyscaphe, the FNRS-2, during the 1949 expedition to Dakar. Thanks...
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    plied the depths of Lake Geneva. In 1964, Jacques Piccard launched a tourist-oriented submarine, the Auguste Piccard (named for his explorer father), for the...
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    It was dive 61 in a long series of bathyscaphe dives supervised by Jacques Piccard. Trieste reached 18,600 feet (5,700 m), later recalibrated to 18,150...
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  • was the first submarine which reached the Challenger Deep by Swiss Jacques Piccard and US Navy Lieutenant Don Walsh in 1960. Alvin class 4 Alvin (DSV-2)...
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    (8184 meters) based on two separate soundings. In 1960, Don Walsh and Jacques Piccard descended to the bottom of the Challenger Deep in the Trieste bathyscaphe...
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    deepest point in the ocean (1960) – Don Walsh (honorary member 1997) & Jacques Piccard First to the surface of the Moon (1969) – Neil Armstrong & Buzz Aldrin...
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