UNEDITED TELEPHONE OBSERVATIONS 

 ON DIVE NUMBER THIRTY-TWO 



August 15, 1934. Dive to 3028 feet. 



Weather clear, hot, almost no breeze, sea almost dead calm. 

 6.40 A.M. Left Nonsuch Laboratory. All regular staff and John 



Long. 

 6.45 Arrived at Ready at Darrell and Meyer Wharf. 

 7.25 Left with tug Gladisfen towing. 



Oxygen tanks mounted in bathysphere; number five on 



left with 1800 pounds, and number seven on right with 



2050 pounds. 

 7.45 Through Old Channel. 



All equipment being fitted in bathysphere. 

 8.00 Humidity-Temperature device mounted. 

 9.15 Barometer set at jj and put in bathysphere. 



American Flag and that of the National Geographic So- 

 ciety tied on cable and photographed, flying just above 



bathysphere. 

 9.25 Door and wing-bolt cleaned and white lead put on 



threads. 

 9.45 Chemicals going in bathysphere, 8 pounds of each. 



Position calculated, 32° 15' 15" N. Lat.; 64° 36' 45" 



W. Long. 



6 miles South-by-East of Nonsuch Island. 

 9.50 Beebe and Barton in bathysphere. Both dryer than usual. 

 9.55 Door lifted into position. Nuts screwed on. Oxygen 



turned on, tank number five used. 

 9.59 Hammering nuts home with sledge hammers. 

 10.02 Wing-bolt going on. 

 10.04 Bathysphere lifted up and swung over side. 



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