The journey was documented in Beebe’s most popular work Half a Mile Down. There were always occupational hazards with dives in the Bathysphere. The steel ball had a condensation problem and a ...

Barton presented Beebe with a blueprint for a seemingly simple deep-sea-diving vessel. He called it the bathysphere. Barton described it as "...just a hollow steel sphere on the end of a cable." ...

Photograph from William Beebe The bathysphere in the water. The impact sent up a cloud of spray, but the shock was hardly perceptible to the divers inside the sphere. Photograph from William Beebe ...

In a 1926 article in The New York Times, Beebe, a noted American ornithologist-turned-marine ... an engineer studying natural history in graduate school at Columbia University, designed the ...

The bathysphere—bathys is Greek for "deep"—was developed in the early 1930s by William Beebe and Otis Barton, two explorers from the New York Zoological Society. It was a 4,500-pound hollow ...

“The Bathysphere Book” opens on the deck of ... One of the men, William Beebe, will wrestle with the realm of darkness and bizarre creatures as he scribbles down and mulls over these early ...