OBSERVATIONS ON DIVE NUMBER THIRTY 27 1 



Feet Stop Start 



Time a.m. 

 i8oo 10.43 10.45.30 



10.45 



1870 



10.46 



1900 10.46.30 10.49 



10.48 



1990 



2000 10.50 



10.49.45 



10.52 



Observations by Beebe 



Ptax-Vike, 6 inches, glistening 

 silvery, lighted by reflection, 

 silvery all over. Beam on. 

 Water in beam all getting 

 turquoise. 



Again a school of 3 to 4 inch 

 fish around beam. Shield- 

 shaped Pteropods going 

 through beam. 



Another melanostomiatid-like 

 fish with light organ in head 

 which lights up own eye, its 

 body lighted brightly and ir- 

 regularly. 



Beam out. 



Maze of Hghts, saw fish, another 

 siphonophore. 



Beam on. Something went out 

 of light when it was put on, 

 a body of indefinite size, 

 dashed out of sight. 



Never have seen things so abun- 

 dant. Barton sees a baby 

 squid. Later a Stylophthalmus 

 a foot away in beam. 



I missed it. 



Beam out. 



String of port-hole lights 3 feet 

 long. 



Beam on. 



Never less than 10 pale yellow 

 lights or bluish ones in sight. 

 The size varies from a pin- 

 prick to an American penny. 



Pyrosoma lighted up. 



Beam out. 



