: a navigable submersible for deep-sea exploration having a spherical watertight cabin attached to its underside
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the WebThat record was previously set by Rolex’s Deepsea Special way back in 1960 when Captain Don Walsh and Jacques Piccard took a bathyscaphe Trieste with that timepiece to a depth of 10,916 meters. Jeremy White, Wired, 7 Mar. 2022
Word History
Etymology
borrowed from French bathyscaphe, from bathy-bathy- + Greek skáphos "hull of a ship, ship"