bathyscaphe

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A bathyscaphe is a self-propelled submersible used in deep-sea dives.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 20, 2023

On 23 January, 1960, Don and Swiss oceanographer Jacques Piccard, who had designed the bathyscaphe with his father Auguste Piccard, began their descent beneath the waves.

From BBC • Nov. 18, 2023

He too will have to descend in bathyscaphe if he is to keep even the friendliest papers interested in photos of his working life.

From The Guardian • Jul. 29, 2019

Navy's Trieste, a 6.5-foot-diameter bathyscaphe with a 50-foot tank of gasoline on top, reaches the deepest point in any ocean, the bottom of the Mariana Trench seven miles down—despite a cracked window.

From Scientific American • Jan. 5, 2015

Yet there is still not a bathyscaphe or diving bell.

From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman