TO DAVY JONES S LOCKER lOI 



It was let down 2000 feet, averaging two minutes for 

 each 100 feet. Two clamps were attached, fastening the 

 rubber hose to the cable every 200 feet. When the cable 

 began to come in we found there were several turns of 

 the hose about the cable. It was beyond our power to 

 revolve the cable so we were compelled to remove the 

 clamps and let the hose drop down, still twisted. As more 

 and more clamps were removed, the ascent became in- 

 creasingly difficult, the rubber hose becoming a regular 

 snarl. By great good luck we were able to push the tangle 

 down and down until at last the bathysphere itself ap- 

 peared and we got it aboard. Draped and looped about 

 and below it were forty-five twists of the half-mile of 

 rubber hose. We imagined the contained light and tele- 

 phone wires bent and broken, and our entire venture 

 seemed to be at an end. It looked as if we were to pay 

 penalty at the very start for daring to attempt to delve 

 into forbidden depths. 



The crew went to work and within twenty-four hours 

 the half-mile of hose was again neatly arranged in its 

 great loops on the deck and when we tested the four wires 

 we found the electric circuit was unbroken, light and 

 sound passing through as perfectly as before the catas- 

 trophe. 



When we wound the great steel cable onto the winch 

 on deck, from, the wooden spool on which it came from 

 the factory, without our knowing it, there must have been 

 a slow twisting. This was not apparent until we let down 



