DOWN DEEP
EXPLORING OCEAN DEPTHS. Exploration of the ocean depths by Dr William Beebe in a great steel ball with its three staring eyes of fused quartx hag. excited the -imagination of scientists and laymen alike. . In 1927, equipped with a diving helmet, be descended sixty feet to the ocean flqoranfi studied the jungles of tropical seas.. Stimulated by his discoveries, fee evolved the bathysphere, or steel r ball, in. which he. recently, descended to a depth of a quarter of,,a mile off tho ( Bermudas and gathercd>djnfonnation of ,Jhei greatest value to seicncc. He is now, planning in the coming year to descend half a mile below the surface of the sea and later intends to nttmept oven greater ocean depths. Through his fused quartz, windows he has looked upon strange denizens of the ocean where the rays of the sun have never penetrated, and seen frail creatures moving in a. pressure so tremendous that human ingenuity, has boon t° i devise a steel casing strong enough to reach them.
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Hokitika Guardian, 26 October 1932, Page 8
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170DOWN DEEP Hokitika Guardian, 26 October 1932, Page 8
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