Beebe's Abyssal Fish
Between 1930 and 1934 naturalist William Beebe reported on a number of amazing discoveries he and inventor Otis Barton had made in Barton's Bathysphere. These discoveries were made deep of the Bermuda coast and they reported many new undocumented fish and see creatures these have never since been found outside of these expeditions and are to this day still not officially recognised by science. photo from William Beebe, (William Beebe onthe left and Otis Barton on the right) Nat Geo Image Collection. The Bathysphere was an interesting piece of technology, it was in essence a spherical unpowered deep sea submersible that was lowered in to the ocean and was capable of depths of over 3,000ft (nearly 1km). A record that stood for 15 years. The Bathysphere made it possible for the naturalist to observe the deep sea creatures in there natural environment. This was as monumental moment as this was the first time this had been able to happen. On these dives Beebe describ...