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...English team includes: Diana Fishwick Kent, British Women's National 1930; Pamcia Barton 17 year old runner up in the 1934 British Open; Melly Gourlay, twice English closed champion; Diana Plumpton, runner up, 1933 British champion, and Wanda Morgan, 1933 English Closed Champion...
Last fortnight, dangling 2,510 ft. down in the sea off Bermuda in the hollow steel ball he calls a bathysphere, William Beebe had a "hunch" that he and Otis Barton, his fellow bathyspherist, had better not go deeper (TIME, Aug. 20). Last week not a hunch but lack of cable held him back. Down went the bathysphere, down past all previous records, down to 3,028 ft. At that point only 47 ft. of cable were left on the winch above. The barge cap tain ordered that no more be paid out. The bathysphere was kept...
...During last week's dive Dr. Beebe saw a great grey shape slide past the bathysphere window. The fish ? species un known ? was 20 ft. long, he estimated, and garlanded with lights like an excursion boat. The lights, he guessed, were phosphorescent parasites. Mr. Barton tried to photograph the creature but had almost no time to focus his camera. The film when developed was dismally blank...
...taken along, made a dive of 410 ft. Since then she has had the women's undersea record to herself. In 1932 she went down 1,000 ft. Last week she descended in the diving ball to 1,208 ft., not with Dr. Beebe but with Otis Barton, his handsome, truculent colleague and bathysphere designer...
...Barton-Beebe bathysphere is a single steel casting 1½-in. thick and 4 ft. 9 in. in diameter. It weighs 5,000 lb. There are three 8-in. windows of fused quartz. The sphere was designed and built by Otis Barton, Harvardman (1922 ), big game hunter, onetime Paris art student. He presented it to the New York Zoological Society. That body and the National Geographic Society sponsored the present expedition...