diving bell

DARHT’s experiments take place within a steel vessel shaped like a diving bell.

After he reached the continental shelf off the California coast, Mr. Keller slipped through a hatch in the diving bell to plant Swiss and U.S. flags.

Some species are powdered with tiny structures that create a kind of diving bell, so they can bubble themselves with air and keep breathing in a flood.

While some readers may struggle to stay afloat in this sea of glinting references and wandering currents, others will be happy to join Hoare in his diving bell to revelation.

The president is behind the fences, locked into a gilded diving bell while life — unruly, boisterous, difficult, evolving — continues on outside.