Sixty miles southeast of Guam, the Navy's bathyscaphe Trieste (PTI, Sept.
Instead Piccard designed a free-cruising "underwater balloon" which he named a bathyscaphe.
The bathyscaphe will carry enough oxygen to keep two men alive for more than 32 hours, and chemicals to absorb the carbon dioxide given off by their breathing.
Irina Khakamada in San Francisco Chronicle There was not a single vessel next to the bathyscaphe that would come to the rescue in case something went wrong,Khakamada told Newsru.com, an online news agency.