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...
"One thing we cannot escape-forever afterward, throughout all our life, the memory of the magic of water and its life, of the home which was once our own-this will never leave us."
"Yet I fine that I must continue to write about it, if only to prove how utterly inadequate language is to translate vividly, feeling and sensations under a condition as unique as submersion at this depth"
As Beebe and Barton pass 600 feet “Only dead men have sunk below this”
At 1426 feet
“We are still alive and one-quarter of mile down”
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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.