Piccard Leaving On World's Greatest Deep Sea Diving Expedition -- Professor Auguste Piccard is surrounded by reporters aboard the 4,000-ton steamer "Scaldis" just before his departure with his friend and colleague, Professor Max Cosyns, for the Gulf of Guinea, off the West coast of West Africa, with their bathyscaphe, for the greatest deep-sea diving expedition of modern times. when they expect to descend 2? miles into the depths of the ocean for observations, and expected possible new discoveries inside their steel globe on the hither to unexplored ocean bed. October 8, 1948.