Otis Barton within the tank he invented for William Beebe’s explorations
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The Bathysphere E book
Brad Fox (Pushkin Press)
DECADES earlier than Trieste, a deep-submergence automobile, entered the Mariana trench within the western Pacific Ocean, a brand new sort of prototype submersible was lowered into the Atlantic waters off Nonsuch Island, Bermuda, greater than 14,000 kilometres away. The Bathysphere, a easy metal ball 1.45 metres in diameter, was designed to doc creatures rumoured to reside at depths no human had visited.
The story of the superb sub and its record-breaking 900-metre dives …
