Noun
navigable deep diving vessel for underwater exploration
Source: WordNetIn the 1950s, Auguste Piccard invented the bathyscaphe and used the Trieste to investigate the ocean's depths. Source: Internet
The first was the manned descent by Swiss-designed, Italian-built, United States Navy -owned bathyscaphe Trieste which reached the bottom at 1:06 pm on 23 January 1960, with Don Walsh and Jacques Piccard on board. Source: Internet
The producers of the TV show Star Trek: The Next Generation named the ship's captain " Jean-Luc Picard " after Jacques Piccard. citation They would later name one of the show's starships the U.S.S. Trieste, after the bathyscaphe. Source: Internet
This additional weight was held in place at the throats of two hopper-like ballast silos by electromagnets, so in case of an electrical failure the bathyscaphe would automatically rise to the surface. Source: Internet
This configuration (dubbed a bathyscaphe by the Piccards), allowed for a free dive, rather than the previous bathysphere designs in which a sphere was lowered to depth and raised again to the surface by a cable attached to a ship. Source: Internet