diving bell

See also: diving-bell

English

Alternative forms

• diving-bell

Noun

diving bell (plural diving bells)

1. An airtight chamber, open at the bottom, that is lowered on a cable underwater to operate as a base or a means of transport for a diver or a small number of divers.

Derived terms

• diving bell spider

Translations

airtight chamber used by divers

• Bulgarian: кесон m (keson)
• Catalan: campana de busseig f
• Czech: potápěčský zvon
• Danish: dykkerklokke
• Dutch: duikerklok (nl)
• Finnish: sukelluskello (fi)
• French: cloche de plongée (fr) f
• German: Taucherglocke (de) f
• Greek: καταδυτικός κώδων m (katadytikós kódon)
• Italian: campana subacquea f
• Korean: 잠수종(潛水鐘) (jamsujong)
• Polish: keson m, dzwon nurkowy m
• Romanian: clopot scufundător (ro) n
• Russian: водола́зный ко́локол (ru) m (vodoláznyj kólokol), водола́зный ку́пол m (vodoláznyj kúpol)
• Swedish: dykarklocka c
• Turkish: dalgıç çanı
• Welsh: cloch blymio f

See also

• bathysphere
• bathyscaphe
• submersible
• submarine