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batiscaf

Navigable deep diving vessel for underwater exploration.

        batiscafo
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        глубоководный обитаемый аппарат
        Portuguese
        batiscafo
        Spanish
        vehículo subacuático
        Catalan
        batiscaf

        Small submarine especially designed to explore profound depths of the oceans, resisting enormous water pressure.

                глубоководный обитаемый аппарат
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                The self-propelled camera, looking like a midget bathyscape, went over the side; as we watched the monitors, we went with it in spirit.
                The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke
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                This historic moment aboard the Swiss-built US Navy bathyscaphe, Trieste, was not repeated until Titanic director James Cameron made the same journey in 2012.
                The Irish Times
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                There were no predators on Whirl... until humans arrived in their floating bathyscaphes to harvest the rarer gases.
                The Hyperion Cantos