2/0 OBSERVATIONS ON DIVE NUMBER THIRTY 



Feet Stop Start Observations by Beebe 



Time a.m. 



spinning around beam, their 

 lights glowing downward. 



10.24.30 4 of the slimmest fish I have 



ever seen. They streak through 

 light, about 15 inches long. 

 Long slender jaws, yet quite 

 different from known eels. 

 Barometer reading jj. 



10.35.30 Pale flesh-colored fish around 2 



feet long, no lights. It is a 

 pale pasty whitish-buff and 

 very high melanostomiatic 

 fins. Grand clear view, mem- 

 orized details. 



Humidity 60%, temperature 



80 

 o . 



Beam out. 

 1530 10.3^.30 Lovely, bright, solid, pale blue 



light close to glass. Prob- 

 ably — , oh, I don't know. 

 1600 10.37.10 10.39.10 Beam on. Walls of bathysphere 



very cold. 

 10.38 Beam off. 



1700 10.40.10 10.41.50 Beam on. Trying to catch sight 



of what makes the larger 



flashes. 



3 Melanostomiatids, 6 inches 



long, black, with pale yellow 



lights. 



Several fish swimming around 



beam of light, now a big one. 



1730 10.42.50 20 lights in sight at once, all 



swimming like mad, now and 

 then an organism that swims 

 steadily, a pale bluish. 



