Bathysphere
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The Bathysphere was a unique spherical deep-sea submersible which was unpowered and lowered into the ocean on a cable, and was used to conduct a series of dives off the coast of Bermuda from 1930 to 1
The Bathysphere on display at the National Geographic museum in 2009
The instruments aboard the Bathysphere
Bathysphere rigged for diving
Else Bostelmann's illustration of the Bathysphere's descent, painted for the National Geographic article which Beebe wrote in return for the National Geographic Society sponsoring his dives
Bathyscaphe
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A bathyscaphe is a free-diving, self-propelled deep-sea submersible, consisting of a crew cabin similar to a bathysphere, but suspended below a float rather than from a surface cable, as in the classi
Bathysphere
…balloonist Auguste Piccard, to perform his own record-setting descent in 1960 to a depth of seven miles (11 km) using a self-powered submersible called a bathyscaphe. The Bathysphere itself served as a model for later submersibles such as the DSV Alvin. Beebe named several new species of deep-sea animals on the basis…
Bathyscaphe Trieste before its only dive into the Mariana Trench
The Trieste in 1958