bathysphere

[ bath-uh-sfeer ]

noun

, Oceanography.

1. a spherical diving apparatus from which to study deep-sea life, lowered into the ocean depths by a cable.

bathysphere

/ ˈbæθɪˌsfɪə /

noun

1. a strong steel deep-sea diving sphere, lowered by cable

bathysphere

/ băth′ĭ-sfîr′ /

1. A hollow, spherical steel diving chamber in which people are lowered by cable from a surface vessel to explore the ocean depths. In 1934 a bathysphere carrying William Beebe and an associate reached a record depth of over 923 m (3,028 ft). Because space in the bathysphere is cramped, dives longer than three-and-a-half hours are intolerable, and it was eventually supplanted by the bathyscaphe .

Word History and Origins

Origin of bathysphere¹

First recorded in 1925–30; bathy- + -sphere

Example Sentences

It was not the grapple hooks from his ship, but chains—chains which the man-armed sharks were wrapping around the bathysphere.

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It was pried up, and slid off the top of the bathysphere, to crash upon the floor outside.

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