bathysphere
noun
bathy·sphere
ˈba-thi-ˌsfir 
: a strongly built steel diving sphere for deep-sea observation
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In 1932, American naturalist William Beebe set out to explore this ecosystem in a vessel known as a bathysphere (a steel ball suspended from a research ship like a pendulum).
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WIRED, 9 Dec. 2023
He was seated in the bathysphere, a submersible steel ball equipped with oxygen tanks and small quartz windows, alongside the device’s inventor, Otis Barton.
—Benjamin Shull, WSJ, 2 July 2023
Otis Barton and William Beebe with the bathysphere in 1934.
—Benjamin Shull, WSJ, 2 July 2023
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.
—Amy Brady, Scientific American, 20 June 2023
The winchmen dropped the bathysphere back on board and unscrewed the bolts to release the skinny men into the afternoon sun.
—Brad Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 May 2023
The bathysphere would be the first submersible to bring humans down into the deep ocean.
—Brad Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 May 2023
New visitations of aliens land in former Minneapolis, initiate dune-buggy-and-bathysphere tours of important sites in career of Prince.
—Ian Frazier, The New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2019
Last weekend, while the police in Moscow forcibly rounded up more than 1,000 anti-Kremlin protesters, the largest such mass detention in years, President Vladimir V. Putin was out on the Baltic Sea, sinking beneath the waves in a bathysphere.
—New York Times, 2 Aug. 2019
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WIRED, 9 Dec. 2023
He was seated in the bathysphere, a submersible steel ball equipped with oxygen tanks and small quartz windows, alongside the device’s inventor, Otis Barton.
—Benjamin Shull, WSJ, 2 July 2023
Otis Barton and William Beebe with the bathysphere in 1934.
—Benjamin Shull, WSJ, 2 July 2023
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.
—Amy Brady, Scientific American, 20 June 2023
The winchmen dropped the bathysphere back on board and unscrewed the bolts to release the skinny men into the afternoon sun.
—Brad Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 May 2023
The bathysphere would be the first submersible to bring humans down into the deep ocean.
—Brad Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 May 2023
New visitations of aliens land in former Minneapolis, initiate dune-buggy-and-bathysphere tours of important sites in career of Prince.
—Ian Frazier, The New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2019
Last weekend, while the police in Moscow forcibly rounded up more than 1,000 anti-Kremlin protesters, the largest such mass detention in years, President Vladimir V. Putin was out on the Baltic Sea, sinking beneath the waves in a bathysphere.
—New York Times, 2 Aug. 2019
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bathysphere
noun
bathy·sphere
ˈbath-i-ˌsfi(ə)r
: a strongly built steel ball in which a person can dive to great depth for deep-sea observation
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