bathysphere

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Nearly a century after the bathysphere's voyage, it's often said that we know more about deep space than about the depths of our own planet.

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