Appendix E 



AFTER more than thirty dives in the bathysphere I felt 

 the need of being checked up on observations and general 

 receptivity of the unusual conditions attendant on these 

 descents. On the deepest dives Mr. Barton was absorbed in 

 the possibilities of photography, but I frequently disturbed 

 him to make him look out and confirm what I discovered 

 to be in our vicinity. I wanted, however, to see what eflFect 

 a dive would have on a working ichthyologist. So I invited 

 my associate, John Tee- Van, to go down 1500 feet with 

 me on Dive 35, on August twenty-seventh, 1934. 



He has recorded spontaneously what he felt and saw, and 

 whatever of repetition there may be in our separate ac- 

 counts will be forgiven in the greater value of two indi- 

 vidual impressions. ^^^^^^ ^^^^^ 



BATHYSPHERE DIVE THIRTY-FIVE 

 by John Tee-Van 



WE live in an era of cruises. In every magazine and news- 

 paper we are importuned to forget our worries and trou- 

 bles and to go around the world or to the North Cape or 

 to spend five days in a journey to Halifax, Bermuda, and 



New York. My last cruise, fortunately for me, was in a 



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