Professor Piccard Prepares To Dive -- Professor Piccard in Milan where some Machinery for the Bathysphere is being Manufactured.Professor Auguste Piccard is planning a Descent Beneath the waves for next August. He hopes the Go deeper than any man before him. The Bathysphere in which he will make hits submarine journey off Naples is now being built of pressed steel and the professor is supervising every stage of its Development. The shell should be finished this month and it will then be taken to trieste for its interior fittings and the installation of the various precision instruments which will record data in the deep. May 5, 1952. (Photo by Paul Popper, Paul Popper Ltd.).