Fig. 106. {upper) At 1:30 p.m. the broadcasting begins. This simply means that the mi- 

 crophone is brought close to our group about the bathysphere, and our general directions 

 and preparations are heard. Fig. 107. {lower) The divers are inside the bathysphere, which is 

 already off the deck, and the radio men, after waiting for a month through hurricanes 

 and mishaps, are at last in full swing. Ford Bond is announcing, while Resides and Mc- 

 Elrath (the latter in charge of the NBC outfit) are watching the mass of delicate and 

 complicated machinery which iy sending our voices over half the world. 



