Definition of bathysphere in US English:
bathysphere
nounˈbaTHəˌsfirˈbæθəˌsfɪr
A manned spherical chamber for deep-sea observation, lowered by cable from a ship.
Example sentencesExamples
- The biggest difference between a bathysphere and a bathyscaphe is that the bathysphere is heavier than water and the bathyscaphe is lighter.
- Here we learn of William Beebe, who became famous in the 1920s for studying the ocean in a bathysphere.
- Spiders were diving under water in air-filled diving bells long before man invented the submarine or the bathysphere.
- Fieldwork costs, for instance, range from plant presses to bathyspheres; hand lenses to DNA probes.
- Fish biologists descend in bathyspheres and submarines to the deepest oceanic canyon, and trawlers scrape up odd saltwater nematodes and mollusks from the bottom sediments.