Piccard Explains His Bathyscape -- Spectacles with a hinged second lens ***** a touch of the Bizarre to Professor Auguste Piccard as he is pictured aboard the cargo steamer Scaldis at Antwerp, Belgium, September 10, explaining ***** Bathyscape to scientists and reporters. The Bathyscape is a forty-ton steel ball, construction of which has taken Piccard and his assistant Max Cosyns, two years to perfect. In it they will descend to unexplored depths of the gulf of Guinea, East Indies. Suspended beneath a huge float, containing Petroleum - "Gasbag" for the Bathyscape - the sphere will be lowered at first without crew, several miles beneath the surface. September 07, 1955. (Photo by The Associated Press Ltd.).