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ment, and a large amount of economical information was 

 accumulated and left at their disposal. 



(2) The director spent several hours every possible day, 

 diving at one or the other of two reefs. These were located 

 and photographed from airplanes and glass-bottomed 

 boats, and their inhabitants were collected by means of 

 hook-and-lines, nets, seines, set-traps, air-rifles, poison and 

 dynamite. 



(3) A brass box was made in New York City, fitted to 

 hold a hand motion picture camera, and with this, on a 

 weighted tripod, one thousand feet of splendid motion picture 

 film was obtained by Mr. Floyd Crosby. These pictures 

 were taken fifteen to thirty feet under water, and even at the 

 greater depth showed full time exposure. Living coral of 

 many species, sea-fans, sponges, and fish were photo- 

 graphed, and the diver in a second helmet can be seen in 

 various activities demonstrating methods of study on the 

 sea bottom. Once a barracuda swam so near the camera 

 that it more than filled the entire screen. 



(4) The idea of a floating laboratory proved perfectly 

 practical. A four-masted schooner, the Lieutenant, was 

 chartered in New York, loaded with the entire outfit and 

 headed for Haiti, where she arrived seventeen days later. 

 Her crew, except the captain, was shipped back to New 

 York at once. She anchored two hundred yards from the 

 naval wharf at Bizoton, and within a few feet of a coral 

 reef. Here she remained for four months, with the excep- 

 tion of two short tows to the Panama steamer across the 

 gulf, for two thousand gallons of New York Croton water. 

 An automobile on the shore kept us in contact with Port- 

 au-Prince, three miles away. 



We lived in nine tents on deck, where a small gasoline 

 engine provided us with ice and electric light. 



In glass-bottomed and other boats and in the schooner's 

 big motor launch, we made constant trips to the two selected 

 coral reefs off shore. On the schooner we were able to avoid 



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