(1) The scientist and Nelson, along with the boat's bathyscaphe was amazingly swallowed by a huge whale.(2) Auguste Piccard conceived the bathyscaphe in the 1930s but became distracted by the allure of high-altitude ballooning.(3) William Beebe's bathyscaphe , based on a steel balloon, and the submersibles which followed, changed the way in which oceanographers were able to gather information.(4) He dove in the bathyscaphe Trieste, and the smaller Soucoupe Marine (rented from Jacques Cousteau) and the Westinghouse Deepstar 4000.(5) For those who are interested, the bathyscaphe is a type of submersible observation chamber.
