BENEATH THE SEA

Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 August 1938, Page 2

BENEATH THE SEA

PROFESSOR PICARD'S SCHEME. Professor Picard, who has voyaged successfully in the stratosphere, is planning a new, scientific adventure, this time in the depths of the sea. Early next year, he is to attempt a 30,000 feet descent beneath the sea in a “loose diving globe.” The object of the dive to to study flora and fauna that live at great depths beneath the sea. The present record descent is about 3,000 feet made by Professor Beebe. “My own job will only be as the pilot of the diving globe,” Professor Picard said this week, “and I will be accompanied by a zoologist and other experts, who will be able to study the submarine fauna and report on their observations. That, of course, is the main object of the descent. “The diving globe we will use will be a sphere some six or seven feet in diameter. It will work very much on the submarine principle. One of the greatest problems I am facing at the moment is with regard to the glass for the portholes. “This glass will have to be strong enough to bear a pressure of 6,0001 b to the square inch, but it will also have to be very transparent, so that the submarine life can be studied with precision.”