272 OBSERVATIONS ON DIVE NUMBER THIRTY 



Feet Stop Start Observations by Beebe 



Time a.m. 

 2050 Mass of light. Area of 2 by 3 



square feet of net-work of 

 light threads. Not the slight- 

 est idea what it is. 

 Melanostomiatid with brilliant 

 scarlet light on head. 

 2100 10.53 10.53.20 



2130 10.53.30 Masses of lights. Barton sees two 



lights blinking on and off, 

 these under control. There are 

 masses of lights. 

 2200 10.54.10 10.5^ Beam on. More lights than ever 



seen before. 

 10.55.45 ^^ distance a pale colored thing 



again, much bigger than the 

 one seen before. 

 Beam off. 

 2300 10.57 1 1. 01 Oxygen reading 950 pounds 



pressure. 

 Humidity ^2%, temperature 



10.59 Beam on. Many small organisms. 



2 large leptocephali, big ribbon- 

 like type, 10 inches long, one 

 swimming a foot behind the 

 other undulating along. 

 Query: Why should larval 

 eels go in pairs? Small squid 

 with pale red and pale green 

 luminous lights. Myctophids, 

 only three or four together, 

 In a loose school. 

 10 to 15 lights steadily coming 

 and going outside of beam. 

 Always sagitta. Beam out. 

 2400 11.02 11.05 Beam on. 



