OBSERVATIONS ON DIVE NUMBER THIRTY 277 



Feel: Stop Start Observations by Beebe 



Time a.m. 



white quartz window pack- 

 ing. 



1800 1 1. 54.10 No lessening in brilliancy of 



sparks. 



1770 School of fish like Myctophids, 



3 to 4 inches, they light up 

 as they weave in and out, 

 about 30 in school. 



1730 Decided luminosity. Can see a 



little with eyes. 



1700 11.5^ Barton can see my face in the 



dilute daylight; can count 

 fingers against window. 

 More light than on other dives! 



1^70 11.57 Haven't seen any really blue 



luminescence before, these are 

 decidedly blue. 



1660 11.58 Bright light. 



1630 11.59 Light as big as an American 



penny, this creature with 

 patches on it. Barton saw 

 something explode and break 

 up. 

 Brilliant animal lights, water 

 color a cold colorless light 

 slowly increasing. 

 Brilliant animal light still. 



More lights going by. 



Still brilliant lights. 



Beam on. Bright lights in 



water. 

 2 Serrivomer 18 inches long, jet 



black, went through beam. 

 Beam out. 



