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bathysphere

bathysphere

See also: bathysphère

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bathysphere (plural bathyspheres)

  1. A spherical steel deep-diving chamber with perspex windows, in which persons are lowered to the depths by a cable to study the oceans and deep-sea life; the precursor to the bathyscaphe

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