288 OBSERVATIONS ON DIVE NUMBER THIRTY-TWO 



Feet Stop Start Observations by Beebe 



Time a.m. 



filled with lights, more so than 

 on our last dive at 2500 feet. 



2900 II. 13. 31 II. 1 4. 52 Now a curved, pale-green light 



under eye, eye lighted up by 

 it. It is crescent-shaped. The 

 fish at least 3 feet long. 5 inch 

 Myctophids, swimming so 

 slowly that I can see whole 

 light pattern. Several close 

 lines of lateral lights, and con- 

 stantly lighted plates. Lainpa- 

 dena, sure, try to look up 

 species. 



2940 Not a flash in sight. 



2950 Now a light coming toward me. 



3000 1 1. 16.24 1 1. 17.30 Siphonophore, a big one. 



Oxygen 1400 pounds, barometer 

 j6, temperature jj°i humid- 

 ity 61%. 



3028 1 1. 19. 14 11.22.03 Beam on. 

 11.20 Beam off. 



Long lace-like things again. 

 Salpa-like with big head and 

 long slender tendrils. Now 

 another one. 



3000 11.22.35 11.23 (Guy ropes shifted for winding 



in of cable.) 



2990 Animals seem to stay in field 



longer than on higher levels, 

 but here comes a flash like 

 mad! 



2905 II. 25. 1 5 11.26.30 (Guy rope broke with a ter- 

 rific snap.) 



2900 11.26.38 11.27 A lovely light. 



