OBSERVATIONS ON DIVE NUMBER THIRTY-TWO 285 



Feci Stop Start Observations by Beebe 



Thne a.m. 



3 more fishes, 18 inches, with 

 irregular Hghtning-like hne 

 around side, and another one 

 which may be same kind. 

 We have colored plate of these 

 but this is record size. 



1900 10.46.24 10.46.51 Sides of bathysphere as cold as 



the devil. Whole atmosphere 

 perfect. 



1950 10.47.30 Fish crash again and again, no, 



it is shrimps throwing out 

 light, letting it go every time 

 they hit the glass. 



1990 10.48.20 Beam on. 



Big fish seen above are Lampro- 

 toxus. Remember this. 



2000 10.48.28 10.49.58 Lights here are great. 



1650 pounds oxygen, humidity 

 60%, temperature 86°. 



2030 Lots of lights that come and go. 



2060 10.50.30 4 to 5 inch big Myctophids. 



2090 10.52.30 Now ghostly things in every di- 



rection, like meteors in every 

 direction. 



2100 10.51.32 10.52.43 Colors of lights are pale blue, 



pale lemon yellow, and pale 

 green. 

 Now 2, 12 Inch fish, one lights 

 up the other, then both light 

 up. Their lights are under 

 control. Big cheek lights and 

 lights along sides, both fish 

 elongate like Melanostomia- 

 tids. 



2150 iO'54 Big siphonophore, and now 4 or 



