DEEP SEA LIFE
Dr. William Beebe, scientist, has recently returned to America to continue researches into unknown world at bottom of sea.
Started by using diving dress, sliding down a rope 63ft to coral reef and peering over the edge into unknown deoths.
Wishing to see other strange sea life alive, Dr. Beebe and a companion, Mr Otis Barton, constructed a Bathysphere (word coined from name of deep-sea fish Bathytroctes—Greek prefix meaning deep). It is a steel ball weighing 2 tons, with fused quartz windows (strongest and most transparent substance known), fitted with oxygen tanks, suspended on 3500 ft of nontwisting steel cable, ** and has half a mile of solid rubber cable containing telephone and electric light wires. Outside windows hang baited, luminous hooks to lure fish. In 1930 they descended 3028 ft into sea off Bermuda Island and saw strange fish with luminous eyes that no other human beings had ever seen alive before.
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Northern Advocate, 24 October 1936, Page 14 (Supplement)
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155DEEP SEA LIFE Northern Advocate, 24 October 1936, Page 14 (Supplement)
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