bathysphere

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The first bathysphere made its initial descent off an island in Bermuda on June 6, 1930, lowered into the Atlantic Ocean by a shipboard winch.

From Scientific American • Jun. 20, 2023

A broken cable would send the bathysphere plummeting into oblivion.

From Scientific American • Jun. 20, 2023

Gloria Hollister, William Beebe and John Tee-Van with the bathysphere in which they made descents into the waters off Bermuda.Credit:

From Nature • Dec. 18, 2018

A bathysphere is a capsule; a sarcophagus is a capsule.

From Time • Feb. 20, 2012

It was not the grapple hooks from his ship, but chains—chains which the man-armed sharks were wrapping around the bathysphere.

From Astounding Stories, August, 1931 by Various