OBSERVATIONS ON DIVE NUMBER THIRTY 273 



Feet Stop Start Observations by Beebe 



Time a.m. 



11.04 Whole beam of light now tur- 



quoise blue. 



Many sagitta. 



2 Gonostoma, same size as those 

 we caught lately. Saw coppery 

 color on side, light organs 

 same color as reflectors behind 

 them. 



11.05 Sides of bathysphere very cold. 

 4 large and i small Sternoptyx, 



can see silvery side and lateral 

 eyes. 

 Beam out. 

 2500 11.06^.10 11.39 Beam on. Much plankton. Flat- 



test fish ever seen. Solitary 

 pteropod, shield-shaped kind. 

 Many little larval fish, often 

 going around beam of light; 

 now something going through 

 beam, may be a fish, it is 5 

 to 6 feet long. 

 1 1. 14 Shift generators from small to 



large. Beam out, fan off. Bar- 

 ton watching voltmeter which 

 is increasing. Stop when it 

 reaches 100. Fan running 

 evenly and slowly. Pale fish 

 back again. 

 1 1. 17 2 Melanostomiatids, macrourid- 



like fish. Also 4 fish with 

 pointed scarlet bills and 

 heads, the rest of the body a 

 light blue fading into clear 

 yellow. Gar-like. Bully view. 

 They are swimming slowly 



