292 OBSERVATIONS ON DIVE NUMBER THIRTY-TWO 



Feet Stop Start Observations by Beebe 



Time p.m. 



Oxygen 1000 pounds, barome- 

 ter 78/2. 

 Lovely light. Can distinguish 

 "' light at 1900 feet because on 



way up eyes are dark adapted. 

 1800 12.07.59 12.08.15 Big mass of organisms lighted 



up. 

 1780 12.09 Now a round fish with light. 



Light as big as an American 

 penny, pale greenish light that 

 glowed the whole time fish 

 was in sight. Fish quite deep, 

 3 inches long, enormous round 

 light on, whole time. 

 1700 12.09.57 12. 10.15 

 1680 12.10.35 12.12.50 (Guys shifted.) 



Lights in water brilliant. 

 Daylight very evident here, can 

 see fingers, but still deadly 

 dark. 

 Good sized Myctophid. 

 Beam on. 



Animal lights brilliant. 

 Beam out. 



A few quite brilliant lights. 

 More brilliant lights. Now a 

 very brilliant one. Light of 

 water seems much more bril- 

 liant until I see animal light. 

 1350 A blaze of lights streak by. 



1320 Light very brilliant. 



1300 12.17.28 12.18 Fish swimming down with back 



toward me, and pectorals with 

 lot of beads of luminescence. 

 Could see no direct lighting 

 of body. It was 12 or 13 



