Grand-Dad Piccard Says Good-Bye -- Professor Auguste Piccard, 62, has a farewell Aug for his little grand-daughter at Antwerp, Belgium, September 15, before he left for he gulf of Guinea in the cargo steamer "Scaldis". Inside the ship is stowed the Bathysphere - a forty-ton steel sphere in which (CCARD) and his assistant Professor ***** will attempt the deepest dive in history. They will endeavor to plumb the secrets of the ocean bed at 13,000 feet below the surface. January 1, 1948. (Photo by Associated Press Photo).