Word: arcturus
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...fastened the gate behind them, dumbly gave back stare for stare through the wire mesh. From time to time, the monsters exchanged signs and left the bottom, risingly slowly and erect like dead fish on hooks. At the surface, they clambered to the bosom of their parent-the S.S. Arcturus-shed the globes from their heads, burst out talking-Explorer William Beebe to his associate Prof. W. K. Gregory-about the submarine scene they had been observing. Also last week, inhabitants of the human world attending" a tea-party at the New York Zoological Park (the Bronx) beheld two creatures...
...radio to tell the U. S. his oceanographic adventures in the South Pacific Ocean. Cruising south from Panama to study the chilly Humboldt Current off the coast of Ecuador (TIME, Apr. 13), thence west to the Galapagos Islands (on the Equator, longitude 92° west), those on board the Arcturus had beheld...
...night-while they were experimenting with a diving helmet outside of Darwin Bay, Tower Island-a weird glare on the horizon. Steaming in that direction at once, the Arcturus came to Albermarle Island, largest in the Galapagos group, where two volcanic peaks were flaming with "fiery cascades of lava ... an unforgettably magnificent spectacle." The photographers on the Arcturus acted. Beebe and a companion, John Tee Van, attempted to approach one of the craters on foot, were driven back by poisonous gases. Forthwith Beebe dubbed the craters Mounts Williams and Whiton, after patrons of the expedition...
Days passed without word from the good ship Arc turns, bearing Scientist William Beebe and 48 companions on an exploration of the deep sea (TIME, Feb. 16, Mar. 9, 16, 30). The Arcturus had traversed the Caribbean, threaded the Panama Canal, headed down for the Humboldt Current off the coast of Ecuador. A week passed, ten days, eleven. On the twelfth day, the U. S. Naval Commandant at Balboa, Panama, notified the Navy Department at Washington that two unnamed ships had relayed to him by air some intelligence from the Arcturus. Next day, the ship reported direct to Washington, stating...
...Arcturus is soon to go to Panama to coal; will cross into the Pacific to investigate marine life in the Humboldt Current before returning to the Sargasso Sea in July, when calmer weather is hoped...