Jacques Piccard, Trieste’s pilot and son of the ... came with the bathyscaph and were hired by ONR as civilian contractors. Submarine Lt. Larry Shumaker became assistant OIC for NEL’s Trieste ...

On January 23, 1960, Swiss explorer Jacques Piccard set down at the deepest depths of the ocean, 10,911 metres below the surface. Crammed into a glorified tin can built to withstand the crushing ...

The Navy will name a future surveillance ship after Don Walsh, a San Diego State University graduate who, along with colleague Jacques Piccard ... to conduct anti-submarine surveillance.