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 ...

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 ...

The bathysphere on deck of the Ready, 1930-1934, from Bathysphere and Nonsuch Wildlife Conservation Society / Reproduced by permission of the Wildlife Conservation Society Archives Midmorning on June ...

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 ...

[Tom Scott] has traveled the world to see interesting things. So when he’s impressed by a DIY project, we sit up and listen. In this case, he’s visiting the Bathysphere, a project created by a couple ...

The bathysphere—bathys is Greek for "deep"—was developed in the early 1930s by William Beebe and Otis Barton, two explorers from the New York Zoological Society. It was a 4,500-pound hollow steel ball ...

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 ...

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 ...

Take a look at the Announcement Trailer for Bathysphere, an exploration-based psychological horror game developed by Base0. Players will be taken to the 1940s in the middle of a bathysphere, trapped ...