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bathyscaphe (n.)
"diving apparatus for reaching great depths," 1947, name coined by its inventor, Swiss "scientific extremist" Prof. Auguste Piccard (1884-1962), from Greek
bathys
"deep" (see
benthos
) +
skaphe
"light boat, skiff" (see
skaphoid
).
