TO DAVY JONES S LOCKER IO3 



North Pole. I think it was Dooley who said that finding 

 the North Pole was like sitting" down on the ice anywhere. 

 And so I felt when they all awaited my signal to stop. I 

 looked about, could detect no unusually favorable swell 

 or especially satisfying wave, so I resorted to a temporal 

 decision, and exactly at nine o'clock ordered the Gladisfen 

 to stop. We headed up wind and up swell, and lowered 

 the bathysphere again with only a motion picture camera 

 inside. At a depth of 1500 feet this was exposed by elec- 

 tricity and the sphere pulled up after an hour and a half 

 of submersion. There was nothing visible on the film, 

 and, what was of far greater interest to us, we found not 

 a single twist of the hose, the windows were intact, and 

 only a quart of water was collected in the bottom. 



We dried and cleaned it thoroughly, then put in the 

 oxygen tanks, and the chemicals. There were two wire 

 racks for holding the latter, one, as I have said, for calcium 

 chloride for absorbing moisture, the other of soda lime for 

 removing the excess of carbon dioxide from the air. Finally 

 we were all ready and I looked around at the sea and sky, 

 the boats and my friends, and not being able to think of 

 any pithy saying which might echo down the ages, I said 

 nothing, crawled painfully over the steel bolts, fell inside 

 and curled up on the cold, hard bottom of the sphere. This 

 aroused me to speech and I called for a cushion only to 

 find that we had none on hand. Otis Barton climbed in 

 after me, and we disentangled our legs and got set. I had 

 no idea that there was so much room in the inside of a 



