The Bathysphere at the National Geographic Museum in Washington, D.C. Photo by Mike Cole/Flickr Roman Mars’ podcast 99% Invisible covers design questions large and small, from his fascination with ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Today we have advanced submersibles and ocean mapping technologies, yet the ocean remains a dark, mysterious place. For explorers ...

In “The Bathysphere Book,” Brad Fox chronicles the fascinating Depression-era ocean explorations of William Beebe. Credit...Wildlife Conservation Society Archives Supported by By W. M. Akers When you ...

William Beebe, center, and two of his assistants, Gloria Hollister and John T. Van, pose with their bathysphere after their arrival in New York from Bermuda on Nov. 23, 1932. (AP) Review by Carl ...

The story of an early deep-sea voyage and the strange world it uncovered Among my favourite mysteries of the natural world is Bathysphaera intacta, a 6ft fish said to resemble a large barracuda. The ...

On June 11, 1930, the American naturalist William Beebe descended into the waters off Nonsuch Island in Bermuda. He was seated in the bathysphere, a submersible steel ball equipped with oxygen tanks ...

Imagine climbing into an airtight, hollow metal ball and flinging yourself into the ocean to sink more than 3,000 feet below the surface. Your most high tech piece of equipment is a palm leaf fan used ...

DECADES before Trieste, a deep-submergence vehicle, entered the Mariana trench in the western Pacific Ocean, a new kind of prototype submersible was lowered into the Atlantic waters off Nonsuch Island ...

Located in an old mill in a remote corner of Italy, the Bathysphere Project at Explorandia is a homemade submarine simulator ...