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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

At First Avenue this weekend, fans will get to take what the venue bills a “psychonautical voyage.” The Bathysphere journey may be proverbial, but the festival boasts a list of trance-inducing music ...

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 ...