24 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. 9I 



STATION 85. Lat. i8°39'3o" N. Long. 65°i6'55" W. February 26, 1933 



Lat. i8°44'oo" N. Long. 65°i6'i5" W. 



The otter trawl was again lowered, with 1,000 fathoms of cable 

 out. The haul, therefore, was made probably in 400 fathoms. 



It resulted in a catch of a number of deep-sea fish, some that had 

 not been taken before ; a small lot of cephalopods, pteropods, and 

 heteropods ; and many small crustaceans. 



STATION 86. Lat. I9°3o'30" N. Long. 65°i4'oo" W. February 27, 1933 



As it was a calm day, we put overboard at i o'clock in the morning 

 a pressure chamber, made by Fenimore Johnson, to depths of 500, 

 1,500, and 3,000 fathoms. From these three depths the chamber was 

 returned intact. As the echo sounding machine failed to give us an 

 answer, we believed that we were in still deeper water and so lowered 

 the pressure chamber to 4,500 fathoms. A kink developed in the 

 wire, which in passing through the sheave on hauling up caused the 

 wire to break, and we lost the chamber. 



While this work was being done, the ship was adrift. Two sharks 

 were caught, which appear to be Carcharodon; they were post- 

 mortemed by Dr. Price for parasites. One of the sharks was ac- 

 companied by two pilotfish, which we caught by leading the shark 

 into the circular net, the fish following. 



Lat. i9°3o'3o" N. Long. 65°i4'oo" W. February 27, 1933 



Lat. i9°i8'3o" N. Long. 65°i6'oo" W. 



We next made a haul with the otter trawl, which we lowered at 

 3 : 40 p.m. and surfaced at 6 : 34. At this haul we used 950 fathoms 

 of cable, which meant a depth of about 350 fathoms for our haul. 



It yielded a lot of deep-sea fish, crustaceans, and a few mollusks. 



STATION 87. Lat. I9°i8'30° N. Long. 65"'i6'oo" W. February 27, 1933 



Lat. i9°i3'oo" N. Long. 65°i6'oo" W. 



The otter trawl was again put overboard at 6: 58 p.m., and sur- 

 faced at 9: 17. 



This haul resulted in a similar catch of fish, shrimp, and squid, 

 although not so many were taken as in the previous haul. 



STATION 88. Lat. i9°i3'oo" N. Long. 65°i6'oo" W. February 27, 1933 



At this station we bent on the hydrographic line 120 hooks with 

 luminous bait and real bait, spacing them at 15 meters, and lowered 

 the line to 2,500 fathoms. We drifted all night to give the hooks a 



