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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...
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...
Dr. Beebe's verbal description of this monster sped up a half-mile of telephone wire into the ears of a pretty, yellow-haired young woman named Gloria Hollister, who recorded the Beebe babblings in her fleet shorthand. Equipped with the conventional headphones and mouthpiece of a switchboard girl but...
Gloria Hollister has a year-round job in the New York Zoological Society's tropical research department but she has accompanied Dr. Beebe on his bathysphere junkets for five years. Twenty-five years before that she was born in Suffern, N. Y. Putting aside dolls at an early age, she...
The 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...