bathyscaphe
noun
bathy·scaphe
ˈba-thi-ˌskaf 
-ˌskāf
variants
or bathyscaph
: a navigable submersible for deep-sea exploration having a spherical watertight cabin attached to its underside
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The dive, in 1960, was in the primitive bathyscaphe Trieste, now on display at a museum in Washington, DC.
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Jim Clash, Forbes, 11 Jan. 2025
The Trieste, as the bathyscaphe is known, touched down 35,814 feet beneath the ocean’s surface.
—U-T Staff, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Dec. 2023
On the morning of January 23, 1960, Jacques Piccard asserted that right, as the bathyscaphe, named Trieste, floated over the Mariana Trench, near Guam.
—Ben Taub, The New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2022
In 1960, Auguste’s son Jacques Piccard steered a pressurized steel sphere called a bathyscaphe to the deepest point in the world’s oceans, at the bottom of the Mariana Trench.
—Helen Fields, Discover Magazine, 20 May 2014
On 20 January 1960, a command ship, a tug, and the bathyscaphe set out from Guam.
—Eliza Strickland, IEEE Spectrum, 29 Feb. 2012
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Jim Clash, Forbes, 11 Jan. 2025
The Trieste, as the bathyscaphe is known, touched down 35,814 feet beneath the ocean’s surface.
—U-T Staff, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Dec. 2023
On the morning of January 23, 1960, Jacques Piccard asserted that right, as the bathyscaphe, named Trieste, floated over the Mariana Trench, near Guam.
—Ben Taub, The New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2022
In 1960, Auguste’s son Jacques Piccard steered a pressurized steel sphere called a bathyscaphe to the deepest point in the world’s oceans, at the bottom of the Mariana Trench.
—Helen Fields, Discover Magazine, 20 May 2014
On 20 January 1960, a command ship, a tug, and the bathyscaphe set out from Guam.
—Eliza Strickland, IEEE Spectrum, 29 Feb. 2012
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“Bathyscaphe.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bathyscaphe. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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bathyscaphe
noun
bathy·scaphe
ˈbath-i-ˌskaf
-ˌskāf
variants
or bathyscaph
: a ship that can be guided underwater for deep-sea exploration and has a round watertight cabin attached to its underside
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