Spiders were diving under water in air-filled diving bells long before man invented the submarine or the bathysphere. |
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Here we learn of William Beebe, who became famous in the 1920s for studying the ocean in a bathysphere. |
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The biggest difference between a bathysphere and a bathyscaphe is that the bathysphere is heavier than water and the bathyscaphe is lighter. |
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The bathysphere, resting on two pieces of lumber, was a little bigger than a wrecking ball, with three steel-rimmed portholes. |
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You might as well have immersed the birds in a bathysphere and introduced them to the orcas, or dosed their food with lysergic acid. |
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After your plane crashes into icy uncharted waters, you discover a rusted bathysphere and descend into Rapture, a city hidden beneath the sea. |
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We stepped into an airless room dominated by a squat green apparatus that resembled a bathysphere. |
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As Matsen explained the provenance of each layer of paint, an onlooker decided to climb inside the bathysphere. |
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The vessel is made as a single forging and heat treated to have a high strength in all directions, an essential property for a bathysphere which has to withstand the pressures of the ocean. |
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A call to the aquarium's curator, Paul Sieswerda, revealed that the bathysphere had been moved indoors, where it was being spruced up for a gala unveiling in early June. |
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Vanadium has been used together with aluminium to give the required strength in a titanium alloy used for a special bathysphere for exploration of the ocean at depths of 10,000 metres. |
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On some of the richest days, when a moose stalks by or a bear is blueberrying or munching hazelnuts outside, I think of my house as a bathysphere suspended in the wilderness. |
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I thought it would be just me and a pencil in a red bathysphere. |
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The device had stopped humming, but still looked like a bathysphere. |
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He rides in a bathysphere to the underwater city of Rapture. |
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