OBSERVATIONS ON DIVE NUMBER THIRTY 265 



9.25 Beebe and Barton in bathysphere, Beebe with ear-phones 



and mouth-piece. 

 9.29 Door in position and nuts screwed on. 

 9.32 Blower turned on. Hammering nuts home. 

 9.37 Wing-bolt going on. Oxygen turned on and set at i litre 



per minute. 

 9.40 Watching swells, ready to lift bathysphere during a calm. 



Feet Stop Start Observations by Beebe 



Time a.m. (Rope tie at 20 feet and each 



100 feet.) 

 Surface 9.41.20 9.43.40 Same puckered ceiling. 2 inch 



flyingfish. Red sponges on 

 side of Ready. Can see shells 

 and regular reef growth on 

 hull. 

 20 9.44 9.45.10 Rays of light like those coming 



through cathedral windows. 

 Looking up, can see last of 

 the hull of Ready. (Boom 

 swung in bringing cable close 

 to side of Ready, and ist rope 

 tie made, telephone hose to 

 steel cable.) 

 40 9.4^ 



100 9.4^.40 9.47 2 little fry, 2 inches long near 



lower edge of glass. 



no 9.47.45 (Bathysphere still in sight.) 



170 9.48.30 Many tiny copepods, look like 



little silver motes. 



200 9.49 9.49.30 



2^0 9.50 Color getting bluish-green rap- 



idly. 



300 9.51.30 9.52.20 Humidity 54%; Temperature 



90°; Barometer jj, same as at 

 surface. 



320 9.53 Perfect string of siphonophores. 



3^0 9- 5 3 '30 Silver fry i inch long going 



