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...deep-diving record went back to France last week. At 10:09 one morning, on the Atlantic 160 miles off Dakar, the French navy's bathyscaphe FNRS 3* submerged. Three hours later she settled on the bottom, 4,050 meters (13,287 ft.) down, beating Professor Auguste Piccard's record (TIME, Oct. 12) by 900 meters...
...FNRS 3, designed and built by the French navy at Toulon, is much like Piccard's Italian-built bathyscaphe, the Trieste. Her submarine-shaped hull, filled with gasoline (lighter than water) supports a sphere two meters in diameter with stainless-steel walls 3.5 in. thick. The sphere is the only part intended to resist pressure. In it huddle the crew, surrounded by jampacked instruments and apparatus...
Married. Jacques Piccard, 31, Swiss deep-sea diver, who, with his famed father, Auguste Piccard, descended to a record 10,330 feet in a steel "bathyscaphe" into the Tyrrhenian Sea (TIME, Oct. 12); and Mary Claude Maillard, 24, a piano teacher; in Lausanne, Switzerland...
...Jacques. It was he who guided the Trieste." There had been no trouble at all; the Trieste had functioned perfectly. She had snuggled down on the sea bottom (where the pressure was about 500 lbs. per square inch) "as on a soft wadding." The result, said Piccard, "is what he had foreseen. It is possible for man to descend into the sea depths using means created by him. The problem is to overcome physical obstacles by using physical principles." He had not felt, he made clear, that he was running much risk. "Everyone," he remarked, "is in the habit...
...Piccard promised his wife that he would make no more balloon ascents. He did not promise that he would not balloon to the bottom...