Appendix F 



UNEDITED TELEPHONE OBSERVATIONS 

 ON DIVE NUMBER THIRTY 



by William Beebe and Gloria HoUister 



August II, 1934. Dive to 2510 feet. 



Weather fair, light southerly breeze, and long low swell. 



Left Nonsuch ^.45 a.m., with entire staff, Beebe, Tee-Van, 

 Hollister, Crane, Bass, and Ramsey. 



Arrived at Ready at Darrell and Meyer wharf at 7 a.m. 



7.30 A.M. Left St. Georges with tug Voiuerful towing; motor- 

 boat Gregory aft. Those on board in addition to Nonsuch 

 group, Otis Barton, F. Dalrymple, E. John Long — Nat. 

 Geog., Joseph Ramft, — associated press, E. T. Sayer — rep- 

 resenting Royal Gazette, United Press, and Central Press of 

 England, David Knudsen, Bermuda Government Photog- 

 rapher. Also Thatcher Adams, and Robert Hartley. 



7.50 Through Town Cut. 



Gadgets fitted inside of bathysphere in preparation for 

 dive. Oxygen tanks numbers one and three placed in 

 bathysphere, number one with 1700 pounds was used and 

 completely exhausted by end of dive. Stuffing-box not 

 satisfactory, so put in another layer of packing and kept 

 ice around outside of box where telephone cable enters 

 bathysphere. 



9.15 Door and wing-bolt prepared, cleaned, sand-papered, and 

 white lead put on threads. 



9.20 Small generator started. Chemicals put in. 



9.22 Slowed Poiuerftd, position calculated to be 32° 14' 40'' N. 

 Lat.; 64° 35' 40" W. Long., 6J/2 miles South-by-East of 

 Nonsuch Island. 



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