Environmental Award winner Bertrand Piccard comes from a long line of "savanturiers" (from "savants-aventuriers", or "scientist-adventurers") that have conquered the heights and the depths: Jacques Piccard, his father, who built the Trieste and descended 10,916 meters into the Mariana Trench in 1960, and Auguste Piccard, his physician grandfather who invented the pressurized cabin, the stratospheric balloon and a revolutionary submarine known as the bathyscaphe.