268 OBSERVATIONS ON DIVE NUMBER THIRTY 



Feet Stop Start Observations by Beebe 



Time a.m. 



Jellyfish very luminous from 

 food. 

 I O.I 8 First eel, lighted up from beam, 



Serrivomer? 8 inches long, 

 did not go into beam. 



Something large up close to 

 edge of light, a very deep fish. 



4 inch leptocephalus, not deep, 

 swimming obliquely upward. 



Small siphonophore and pyro- 

 soma, I foot long with no 

 light. 

 10.19 Beam turned out. 



Beam on. 



Ctenophores with no light. 



Beam out. 



Sparks in all directions, dozens 

 of them, died out. 



Large creature back again, out 

 in distance, may be longer 

 than I thought. 

 10.22.15 Pteropods, shield-shaped, shin- 



ing by reflected light. Clio. 



Big glow in the distance, 6 to 8 

 inches across, the light going 

 up. 



Pediculate, 3 inches long, very 

 deep, a pale lemon-yellow 

 colored light on illicium. Now 

 it is close to window. Same 

 fish went past again. Between 

 me and illumined front of this 

 fish swam another 3 inch fish 

 which was faintly lighted all 

 over with a silvery lumines- 

 cence. 



