bathysphere

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.

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.

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

But they did not descend in the bathysphere.

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.