OBSERVATIONS ON DIVE NUMBER THIRTY 279 



Feet Stop Start Observations by Beebe 



Time p.m. 



^00 12.17.30 (Splice coming, pulling up 



slower. ) 



590 12.18 (Cut splice tie.) 



"Water a beautiful blue, looks as 

 though I could read easily but 

 can see nothing at all. 



500 12.19.30 2 little Myctophids. 



490 12.20 Caranx ruber, about i foot, blue 



along sides, comes up from 

 under bathysphere. 



400 12.21 Ocyurus chrysurus suddenly ap- 



pears. 

 Large ctenophore. 



340 12.22 I pilotfish, about 6 inches, looks 



in window. 



Barometer reading 84. 



100 pounds of oxygen left. 

 Humidity 85%, temperature 



Sargassum weed seen above. 

 12.31 (Last rope tie cut and boom 



swung out away from ship.) 

 Hull close in front. 

 Oxygen all gone from tank 

 Number one. Barometer read- 

 iiig 75V2' Temperature 71°. 

 Deck temperature about 100" 

 in sun. 

 Wing-bolt out 12.3^ Marked outward rush of air 



when unscrewed, indicating 



built up pressure. Careful 



Nuts off door 12.39 measuring showed that no 



Door oflF and divers out. telephone cable has slipped in. 



