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bathysphere

[bath-uh-sfeer] / ˈbæθ əˌsfɪər /
NOUN
diving bell
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A broken cable would send the bathysphere plummeting into oblivion.

From Scientific American

By the 1930s, US oceanographer and zoologist William Beebe was enrapturing the world with radio commentary delivered from a research submarine, the ‘bathysphere’, hundreds of metres down in Bermuda waters.

From Nature

This glittering abyss was captured by the first person to ever travel there: William Beebe, a pioneer of the deep-sea bathysphere .

From Washington Post

But they did not descend in the bathysphere.

From New York Times

They certainly would have enjoyed inventing the top-hat-sporting gent whose torso consists of a bathysphere, which turns out to contain — no spoilers here.

From Washington Post