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bathyscaphe
Sign in to savethumb|Bathyscaphe Trieste (bathyscaphe)|Trieste before its only dive into the [[Mariana Trench]] thumb|The Trieste in 1958
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Mode of operation
- History of development
- Accomplishments
- See also
- References
- External links
thumb|Bathyscaphe Trieste (bathyscaphe)|Trieste before its only dive into the [[Mariana Trench]] thumb|The Trieste in 1958
A bathyscaphe () is a free-diving, self-propelled deep-sea submersible, consisting of a crew cabin similar to a bathysphere, but suspended below a float rather than from a surface cable, as in the classic bathysphere design.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “bathyscaphe” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.