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The bathysphere remains stationary if its weight is the same as the weight of the water that it replaces. Suppose the hemisphere of water replaced by one half of the bathysphere has weight (shown in blue). The pressure force on its flat circular surface is (shown in red), where is the pressure at the depth of the center of the flat circular surface and is the radius of the bathysphere. The pressure force (shown in green) on its curved hemispherical surface is such that the total force is zero.

Now consider the force balance of the half of the bathysphere that replaces the water. It still has weight and experiences the same pressure force on its curved hemispherical surface. Consequently, the force from the other half of the bathysphere must add up to , which depends on the depth of the bathysphere and not on the inclination of the plane of contact of both hemispheres.

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