bathysphere
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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.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 20, 2023
A broken cable would send the bathysphere plummeting into oblivion.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 20, 2023
Hollister became invaluable as an experienced ichthyologist, and she made research descents in the bathysphere.
From Nature ● Dec. 18, 2018
Gloria Hollister, William Beebe and John Tee-Van with the bathysphere in which they made descents into the waters off Bermuda.Credit:
From Nature ● Dec. 18, 2018
Even at the one mile depth in his bathysphere, the water had been brilliant, yet here, almost at the surface, he could see absolutely nothing.
From Astounding Stories, August, 1931 by Various
