OBSERVATIONS ON DIVE NUMBER THIRTY 275 



Feet Stop Start Observations by Beebe 



Time a.m. 



11.34 String of some lighted organism 



3 feet long, looks like a nar- 

 row Christmas tree. 

 Change to big generator again 

 for photographing. 



11.35 Beam on again. 



Shift generators back to small 

 one. 

 11.37 (Cable slipped down to 2510 



feet. ) 

 Small beam on. Thank God, the 

 window is cooling. Turquoise 

 color extending through 

 whole beam of light. Beam 

 extends out about 30 to 40 

 feet without doubt. Must find 

 out somehow. 

 11.39 (We are cutting last rope tie 



getting ready to pull up 

 bathysphere. ) 



2470 New fish 6 inches long, with 3 



illicia on head, big one in 

 front and 2 behind it close to- 

 gether. Fish not very deep. 

 Good view; will enlarge on 

 this. 

 11.40 Biggest flash yet. Longest lot of 

 flashes. 



2400 1 1. 4 1. 30 Largest lot of flashes just ob- 



served are the largest lot of 

 Myctophids seen yet. 50 to 

 60 still with us. 



