The diving bell, which uses outside water pressure to keep air inside it, was mentioned by Aristotle in the 4th century BCE.
He made a descent in a diving bell, which was used to try to reach wrecked treasure ships.
I am not sure but the diving bell is getting somewhat out of use now.
So he had decided to remove such obstructions at the proper moment through divers or a diving bell.
The first diving bell we read of was a very large kettle suspended by ropes with the mouth downwards, and planks fixed in the middle of its concavity.
We saw a diving bell in the great hall, which is frequently put into action, and visitors are allowed to descend.
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Suddenly thedivingbellis brought up without gradual decompression and there is an explosion.
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They were operating from adivingbellat a depth of 78 metres when the weights on the bell broke away.
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In one debate it was suggested that it was like making a crack in adivingbell—the water flooded in.
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In another accident, adivingbellsurfaced rapidly from 240 ft.
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The diver may be deployed directly, often from a diving support vessel or indirectly via adivingbell.
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Unlike a submarine thedivingbellis not designed to move under the control of its occupants, nor to operate independently of its tether.
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The short film's main character is adivingbellspider who seems to have fallen in love with a water strider.
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Shortly after he reported aboard, he came across hisdivingbelldrawings.
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It operated as adivingbell, but was autonomous as a submarine propeller.
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It transports this air to itsdivingbellto replenish the air supply in the bell.
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In the diving helmet, a principle similar to that of the wetdivingbellis used, where compressed air is provided to the helmet.
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In the same year he built an improveddivingbell.
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In the context of surface supplied diving, the place of safety for a diver with a decompression obligation is often thedivingbell.
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Since the spider must breathe air, it constructs from silk adivingbellwhich it attaches to an underwater plant.
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Thedivingbellis the elevator or lift that transfers divers from the system to the work site.
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