OBSERVATIONS ON DIVE NUMBER THIRTY 267 



Feet Stop Start Observations by Beebe 



Time a.m. 



20 pteropods, long tubular 

 kind, Creseis. Larval fish, i 

 inch. Jellyfish i inch across. 

 Beam turns into pale turquoise 

 where it disappears at farthest 

 end. 

 Many strings of salpa-like ani- 

 mals. I leptocephalus, 3 

 inches, not very deep, i larval 

 fish, I inch. 

 (2 big CorypJjcena on surface 

 around cable.) 

 10.09 Beam off. 



900 10.10.30 I O.I I 1400 pounds pressure left in 



number one oxygen tank. 

 920 10.11.30 4 inch fish with 6 bluish-white 



lights along side. 

 950 10.12.30 Worms; no, they are round- 



mouths. Light colored ones. 

 "Water blackish-blue, a dull 

 color. 

 1000 10.13 10.14 Pteropods. Then a brilliant flash 



appears and goes out. 

 1050 10.15. 5 12 flashes going on and off. 



Large dark body passing. 

 Squid or fish? 

 1 100 lo.i^ 10.19.30 3 fishes went past, appeared out 



of darkness. 

 10.17 3 full-sized Argyropelecus 



swimming upright and to- 

 gether. Larval fish. Whole 

 string of luminescence spread 

 out like net-work. 

 Many copepods and sagitta, all 

 very active in beam. Nothing 

 very large. 



