Piccard Dives 3,608 - Feet -- Professor Auguste Piccard (Right), gestures with his right arm as he talks into the Microphone after his descent, August 26th. His Son, Jacques (behind), is also speaking into the Microphone. Swiss-Born scientist Auguste Piccard, 69, One-time Stratosphere Balloonist, and his son Jacques, 37, plunged 3, 608 feet to the bottom of the mediterranean yesterday August 26th in his ten-ton steel "Bathyscafe." Piccard said afterwards that the diving craft could go to "Any Depths." He plans to make a three-mile dive in it at a point of Ponza and Sardina. September 07, 1955. (Photo by Associated Press Photo).