LIFE IN OCEAN DEEPS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume L, Issue 15269, 5 April 1913, Page 5 (Supplement)

LIFE IN OCEAN DEEPS.

Bm JoanrMinna*/&»*■devoted moßfc<tf his life tostndyingthe orwMrares'of the ocean. Ho was oneof 4t» "'-;i^fttraHßiei' V: ixt .L^bet:OllM'', ; leaser of; 40 yeais Since then'''.Be haw* MmUar tiocs, ifl 1910 he cwiducfejii atexpensethe.■"''•■Michael/"'Sareexpedition fn Atlantic.Ocean. "Old as I tm," hft yftceitttly' told an audience at the 1 Eoyal hope of aaxtne tiirf witha larger; ship tibsa the; Michael; Saw 6 :and;: more j:- equipment" ■ /' ■".,"' V %■. Perhaps the/ most interesting region /of tiie sea :;w»3;.ivfl^//might/ bevcafiwr'tbe " twilight zone," Trhfcre' the sunlight ceased to penetrate ax« 3 plant life ended-: In this were to be found beautiful xed weafcures, acme with large eye* 1 ; pome $nth- no eyes or very email ones./ Phot^frspjiic;!vendee '■■'Mot some of the weird/fishee ioha|jtmgthis region were (mown; and Sir s'obii; /pointing to one which looked like a gross cappature of the Hibernian^^^ewi«»V>,Teiy.large month remarked s "1 "Was /responsible for p the etatement in the Challengers that thesebeihge were'got /at ,-«£ dSpw* *» feF. three miles;/and that ;they; bmed them- ?* in this; mudand had. a ';-Um*rsM*i §j , pnoreacent light with which |heyiattracted ■4 their prey. /But I have sinfeediscovered that they hVe some four or five hundred f Jathoma from the enrfaoei bo that their ulMwphowfcence cto . -that way." ■-.-'■ , :' ' "Wo do not, in fact," added Sir-John, "quite understand tho role of phosphorescent light in ibe depths, of the .ocean. Sometimes 6he eyea of the fish beyond the ■unligbt region get bigger and bigger,/ snmller,/and appear altogether. Whether "this is due to the presence of absence of tlie pilosis ohofeseenttight: we cannot -pay, It .Is csVmu&j pnialing. atid a problem for which /*> Mtonrklirt ha» yet suggeited* rational