One of a remarkable family of record-setting explorer/scientists, Jacques Piccard (born 1922) is one of the fathers of marine exploration and a pioneer of ocean engineering. Explorer Jacques Piccard comes from a family known for their daring...

1922- Swiss Oceanic Engineer and Physicist Jacques Piccard, born on July 28,1922, is an oceanic engineer and physicist who assisted his father, Auguste Piccard, in building the bathyscaph for deep-sea exploration. This submarine-like vessel allowed...

Swiss oceanic engineer, physicist, and economist Jacques Piccard is a Swiss oceanic engineer best noted for making the deepest ocean dive (with Lt. Don Walsh) in the bathyscaph Trieste, a submersible vessel he helped build with his father, Auguste...

Jacques Piccard (born July 28, 1922) is a Swiss explorer and engineer, known for having developed underwater vehicles for studying ocean currents. He is the only person (as of 2006), along with Lt. Don Walsh, to have reached the deepest point on the...

Doing things nobody has ever done before comes naturally to the Piccard family. Balloonist Bertrand Piccard on Saturday became the first to go around the world non-stop in a balloon, following an adventuring tradition that began in 1931 when his physicist grandfather Auguste...

VAIL, Colo. - The surprise of surprises in yesterday's closing of the American Ski Classic was that the powerful Swiss team, for once, failed to finish in the medals. Instead, on the long, cranky super-G course, it was the French racer, Franck Piccard...