I’ve been rereading Beebe’s Half-Mile Down in which he describes his and Otis Barton’s 1934 descent to 3,028 feet off Bermuda.
To reach this depth the two placed themselves into a self-designed 4,500lb sphere about five feet in diameter raised and lowered from a ship by a cable.
Some of my favorite quotes from the the Beebe’s book include...
2/ First we need some working definitions. Albinism is the lack of pigmentation in skin, hair, feathers, scales, shells, or eyes (Hiler 1983).
3/ True or complete albinism is the total absence of pigment in the integument, any outer covering of an animal, and retinal, eye, pigmentation (Sandoval-Castillo et al. 2006).
The Vast Majority of the Deep-Sea Remains Completely Unexplored: A Thread 1/n
Although the earliest interest and sampling in the deep sea occurred in the late 1800’s, a majority of deep-sea exploration did not occur until after the 1960’s. 2/n
The current amount of sampling and exploration of this great environment is without precedent. Despite this, new species and new habitats are constantly being found 3/n
The Guinness Book of World Records has an entry for biggest male-female difference: the deep-sea angler fish, also known as the giant sea devil. #deepsea
Females of the largest species, Krøyer's deep sea angler fish, Ceratias holboelli, reach 1.2 m (3.9 ft) in length. Males, by contrast, are much smaller, reaching 14 cm (5.5 in)
The female is about 500,000 times heavier than the male.