submersible

IPA: sʌbmˈɝsɪbʌɫ

(Britain) A small nonmilitary, non-nuclear submarine for exploration.
(Britain) A retroactive term used for non-nuclear submarines; nuclear submarines are termed "true submarines".
(Britain) A term used primarily by some navies for nuclear submarines, termed "true submersibles", because they cannot retroactively declare that their non-nuclear submarines should be called by a different name.
(US) A very small "baby" submarine designed for specific localized missions, usually while tethered to a submarine or ship for life support and communications. Slang synonyms: midget-submarine, anchor.
(nautical) An underwater vehicle with limited mobility, similar to a submarine, but less mobile.

Examples of "submersible" in Sentences

Some cameras are submersible.
A submersible dike extends to the Illinois shore.
The boat was fully submersible, able to cut through waves and go underwater.
The Dazer Laser is fully water proof and submersible up to 20 meters in depth.
Very dorky looking - I much prefer the look of that biomimetic dolphin submersible.
Video from a robotic submersible, which is making the rounds online, shows something puffing from the seafloor.
At fifty meters and change, the submersible was a mid-sized Falnari vessel built for touring and very little else—certainly not for teetering on the edge of an abyss.
If the centrifugal pump is directly connected to an electric motor in a common housing as a single unit for operating below the water level, the set is called a submersible pump.
He also said the Jiaolong's designers had purchased a lot of "off the shelf" technology from overseas, and had benefited from training dives on the U.S. Navy's Alvin manned submersible, which is operated by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts.