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The bathyscaphe Trieste, displaying the Italian and Swiss flags, is shown after its record plunge of 3,150 meters, 10,330 feet, to the bottom of the Thyrrhenian Sea off the island of Ponza, about 50 miles west of Naples, Sept. 30, 1953. Jacques Piccard holds onto his father, physicist Auguste Piccard, holding on to the turret, before descending into a rowing boat. Jacques Piccard, one of the last great explorers of the 20th century passed away on Saturday, Nov. 1, 2008 at his home on the edge of Lake Geneva in Switzerland, the Swiss SolarImpulse project said in a press release and on its Website on Saturday. He was 86. In 1960 Piccard and his companion Don Welsh dived deeper than any man before. With the bathyscaphe "Triest" they reached a depth of almost 11'000 meters bellow sea level. (KEYSTONE/AP Photo)