Piccard Ready for Sea Descent
ANTWERP, Sept 15.
Professor Auguste Piccard and his assistant, Professor Max Cosyns, sailed‘in the Belgian 4000-ton motor ship Scaldis for a deep-sea diving venture in the Gulf of Guinea. They hope to descend 2£miles in a lOrtoh steel sphere, the cabin of which resembles the globe of the balloon in which Piccard ascended to the stratosphere in 1931. It is bare, except for seats,, cameras, air supply apparatus .pressure and leak-detect-ing instruments, and distaphones, on which the two men will record their observations —the exertion of writing would use too much oxygen. Professor Piccard, chewing gum vigorously to conceal his excitement, repeatedly emoraced his wife and two daughters on the quayside. Finally his son Jacques, aged 26. who is accompanying the expedition pulled his father aboard just before the gangway was raised.
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Grey River Argus, 17 September 1948, Page 8
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