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bathysphere

bathysphere:

An airtight, diving steel ball scientists first used in 1930 to explore the oceans. A bathysphere is lowered by a cable from a ship on the surface and remains attached to the ship. [Bathysphere comes from Greek words meaning “deep” and “ball.”]