OBSERVATIONS ON DIVE NUMBER THIRTY-TWO 289 



Feet Stop Start Observations by Beebe 



Time a.m. 



(Guy rope re-rigged, but broke 

 again with a sickening thud.) 

 Oxygen 1300 pounds, still com- 

 ing at I Htre per minute. Ba- 

 rometer 75/4, temperature 

 73°, humidity 6z%. 

 Now 3, very round fish, saw no 



lights at all on them. 

 It is bitter cold inside, hand feels 

 icy when touching window 

 ledge. 



2880 A squid 8 inches, with i pale 



blue light and could see whole 

 body when it passed by other 

 lights. 



2830 Now many things again, as thick 



as I have ever seen them. 



2800 11.29.58 II. 30.15 



2750 1 1.3 1 Mass of copepods and other 



plankton, can see them about 

 40 feet out away from bathy- 

 sphere. Can see a mass of little 

 lights given out. 

 Barton sees a big body with i 

 light on each end, it may be a 

 Melanostomiatid. 



2705 II. 31. 57 II. 32. II 



2700 II. 32. 15 11.32.45 



2680 ii'34 (Both generators going.) 



2^30 Beam on. 



2600 11.34.28 11.34.53 (About 6 turns of telephone 



hose around bathysphere 

 cable.) 



2540 Saw a fish with literally hun- 



dreds of lights, about 8 inches 



