As per our current Database, Jacques Piccard has been died on Nov 1, 2008 (age 86).
When Jacques Piccard die, Jacques Piccard was 86 years old.
Popular As | Jacques Piccard |
Occupation | Explorer |
Age | 86 years old |
Zodiac Sign | Leo |
Born | July 28, 1922 (Belgium) |
Birthday | July 28 |
Town/City | Belgium |
Nationality | Belgium |
Jacques Piccard’s zodiac sign is Leo. According to astrologers, people born under the sign of Leo are natural born leaders. They are dramatic, creative, self-confident, dominant and extremely difficult to resist, able to achieve anything they want to in any area of life they commit to. There is a specific strength to a Leo and their "king of the jungle" status. Leo often has many friends for they are generous and loyal. Self-confident and attractive, this is a Sun sign capable of uniting different groups of people and leading them as one towards a shared cause, and their healthy sense of humor makes collaboration with other people even easier.
Jacques Piccard was born in the Year of the Dog. Those born under the Chinese Zodiac sign of the Dog are loyal, faithful, honest, distrustful, often guilty of telling white lies, temperamental, prone to mood swings, dogmatic, and sensitive. Dogs excel in business but have trouble finding mates. Compatible with Tiger or Horse.
Engineer who developed a deep water submersible and used it to study the deepest part of the ocean, the Mariana Trench.
He studied economics, but the lure of explorations conducted by his father proved too great, and he quit school.
On the Challenger Deep mission, Piccard and a Navy lieutenant descended to a depth of more than 35,000 feet before finding the ocean floor.
He came from a family of noted Engineers and explorers.
His father, Auguste Piccard, also built vehicles to go up high into the atmosphere and deep into the oceans.