Word: bathyfauna
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with control apparatus, batteries and instruments. The bathyscaphe will carry enough oxygen to keep two men alive for more than 32 hours, and chemicals to absorb the carbon dioxide given off by their breathing. Powerful searchlights outside the cabin will light up the sea, and allow fish and other bathyfauna to be observed and photographed. Because time for note-taking will be short, a recording device will bring back a running commentary on the dive. The depth ship's experimental compass will be outside the cabin too, since the earth's magnetism will not penetrate the thick steel...
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