bathysphere

noun

bathy·sphere ˈba-thi-ˌsfir

: a strongly built steel diving sphere for deep-sea observation

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web 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 Despite being 44 years old, weighing close to 300 pounds and looking like a bathysphere on legs, Colon is adept at fielding his position, even pulling off the kinds of Globetrotter-esque plays that men half his age would flub. —

Stephanie Apstein, SI.com, 23 Apr. 2018 Although the photographer on Cousteau’s ship went down with just an oxygen tank and a camera, some old-school underwater photographers had to awkwardly squeeze themselves into spherical vessels known as bathyspheres. —

National Geographic, 14 July 2016

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