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bathyscaph, bathyscaphe, bathyscape a submersible vessel having a flotation compartment with an observation capsule underneath, capable of reaching ocean depths of over 10 000 metres (about 5000 fathoms) |
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| In 1960, Auguste's son, Jacques, took a super submarine called a bathyscaph (after the Greek for ``deep boat'') to the bottom of the Marianas Trench in the Pacific - the deepest point on the earth's surface. dive in the French Navys Bathyscaph Archimede in the Kurile trench in 1962. |
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