bathyscape

bathyscaphe, bathyscape, bathyscaph

Oceanography. a small, modified submarine for deep-sea exploration, usually having a spherical observation chamber fixed under a buoyancy chamber.

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bathyscape - navigable deep diving vessel for underwater exploration

bathyscaph, bathyscaphe

submersible - an apparatus intended for use under water

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These are the words of William Beebe, bathyscape pioneer, from 1934, breathless with the near-religious ecstasy of someone who has glimpsed beyond--below--the canny.

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1 Quoted in Macfarlane, Alan and Gerry Martin, The Glass Bathyscape, Profile Books, 2003, p7.

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But the leaders of the Tories, Labour, Lib-Dems and Nationalists are all speaking from a rose-tinted bathyscape at the bottom of the ocean.