diving bell

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(n) diving apparatus for underwater work; has an open bottom and is supplied with compressed air

They worked in teams of four, transferring through an air lock from an on-deck pressurized living chamber to a diving bell from which they could swim to the wreck.
The Fifties is more than an entertainment, but to borrow an image from novelist Peter DeVries, it puts you in a diving bell and takes you down three feet.
From a telephone-equipped diving bell divers directed the lowering of explosives to blast through to the small bullion room in the ship's center.