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diving bell

NOUN
one-person diving apparatus
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The process resembles natural strategies seen in diving bell spiders, which carry air bubbles underwater, and in fire ants, which form floating rafts using their water-resistant bodies.

From Science Daily • Jan. 30, 2026

Once the pair were on a framework under the diving bell, Mr Allcock said he was able to pull Mr Lemons inside using a set of pully systems ropes.

From BBC • Mar. 14, 2025

DARHT’s experiments take place within a steel vessel shaped like a diving bell.

From Science Magazine • Apr. 20, 2023

Maybe you will need a diving bell and a hang glider.

From New York Times • Oct. 11, 2018

As a young man Norwood had traveled to Bermuda with a diving bell modeled on Halley’s device, intending to make a fortune scooping pearls from the seabed.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson



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