286 OBSERVATIONS ON DIVE NUMBER THIRTY-TWO 



Feet Stop Start Observations by Beebe 



Time a.m. 



5 inch fish and something 

 wiggKng hke mad. 



220O 10.54.24 10.55.36 Shrimp explodes in midwater, 



no trace of any color. 

 Oxygen 1550 pounds, tempera- 

 ture 85°, humidity 60%, ba- 

 rometer 76^. 

 Have never seen such a dark 

 place, it is the darkest in the 

 world. Can see radiolite mark- 

 ings on the barometer glass in 



2290 bathysphere. 15 Myctophids 



in a school. 



2300 10.57.07 10.57.30 



2330 Little forms, like separate sparks, 



like net-work. Can this be the 

 fluid, luminous tissue let out 

 in the water by shrimps? 



2400 10.59.15 10.59.38 2 twin lights, light up. 



Beam on. 



2430 Turquoise extends over four- 



fifths of beam, very delicate 

 color. 



2450 11.00 Big fish or cetacean came quite 



near, could just see his outline. 

 Was at least 20 feet long, one- 

 third of this deep. 

 It is icy cold in here. 



2500 11.01.18 11.03.03 Beam off. 



Barton says not more than one- 

 quarter inch of hose has 

 slipped in. 

 Oxygen 1500 pounds, humidity 

 63%, barometer 76. 



2540 Another shrimp. 



