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  • noun Plural form of bathyscaphe.

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Examples

  • The Deep Flight II was unlike most deep ocean submersibles and bathyscaphes which tended to be shaped like a fat man, rotund and thick around the waist.

    SERPENT CLIVE CUSSLER 2000

  • The Deep Flight II was unlike most deep ocean submersibles and bathyscaphes which tended to be shaped like a fat man, rotund and thick around the waist.

    SERPENT CLIVE CUSSLER 2000

  • Maybe in a couple thousand years they would have submarines and bathyscaphes to scour the ocean floor, and they would find the saucer but have to leave it to the barnacles and gilled creatures.

    ROGUE SAUCER JOHN VORNHOLT 1996

  • Maybe in a couple thousand years they would have submarines and bathyscaphes to scour the ocean floor, and they would find the saucer but have to leave it to the barnacles and gilled creatures.

    ROGUE SAUCER JOHN VORNHOLT 1996

  • Maybe in a couple thousand years they would have submarines and bathyscaphes to scour the ocean floor, and they would find the saucer but have to leave it to the barnacles and gilled creatures.

    ROGUE SAUCER JOHN VORNHOLT 1996

  • "It's a development of the early French bathyscaphes," I said rapidly.

    Fear is the Key MacLean, Alistair 1961

  • The Russians not only have expertise in using nuclear devices to cap blown-out gas and oil surface wells, they also have bathyscaphes capable of exploring the Deepwater Horizon site a mile down.

    RIA Novosti 2010

  • She’s reached depths previously unseen except by bathyspheres and bathyscaphes … … … ..

    Think Progress » Mississippi Gov. Barbour Thinks Slavery Omission ‘Doesn’t Matter For Diddly’ 2010

  • The Olympia design is based on terrestrial bathyscaphes. "

    Three Worlds to Conquer Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1964

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