On the afternoon of September 22, , listeners across America and the UK tuned their radio sets to an extraordinary live broadcast that was being transmitted from inside a small steel sphere hundreds of feet below the ocean&#;s surface. Locked inside the sphere was naturalist William Beebe and inventor Otis Barton, who designed the device. Through a telephone system supplied by Bell Laboratories, Beebe described the wonderful marine life that swam past his tiny quartz window&#;&#;a school of brilliantly illuminated jellyfish with pale green lights came within three feet of [our] window. I have never seen such brilliant light,&#; Beebe announced. Transmitting from 1, feet beneath the surface, Beebe and Barton was on their way to the deepest ocean dive in history.
William Beebe inside the Bathysphere.
At that time, five hundred feet was the deepest anybody had ever dived using an armored diving suit. A typical submarine barely descended to feet. Beebe wanted to dive deeper, not because for the thrill, but to observe the mysterious ocean life that dwelled there. Until then, the only understanding of deep sea life came from animals dredged from the ocean floor. Nobody had ev
The Remarkable Life of William Beebe: Explorer and Naturalist Carol Grant Gould
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- Christopher K. Starr Department of Life Sciences, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad & Tobago
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Charles William Beebe, Carol Grant Gould, Simla, Tropical Research Station, Asa Wright Nature CentreAbstract
Christopher Starr reviews a rare biography of Charles William Beebe, world renowned naturalist. Carol Grant Gould’s treatment of the remarkable achievements is of particular relevance for Trinidad and Tobago. Beebe’s establishment of a research station at Simla was eventually incorporated into the Asa Wright Nature Center: the William Beebe Tropical Research Station. It continues to provide an important resource for academic research nature enthusiasts alike.
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Madeleine ThompsonOn August 15, , eighty years ago today, famed Wildlife Conservation Society naturalist William Beebe set a record that captured the world’s attention: in a small, steel submersible called the Bathysphere, he descended 3, feet into the ocean’s depths. Actually, the plunge was one in a series of record-setting dives that Beebe, together with the Bathysphere’s engineer, Otis Barton, made off the coast of Bermuda beginning in
Beebe’s exploits as an explorer-naturalist had already made him a household name. The dives made him even more of a celebrity. But rather than the records he set, Beebe’s interests lay with investigating the deep sea and its inhabitants. While some scientists were trying to capture and identify as many marine creatures as possible, Beebe and his staff, known as the Department of Tropical Research, took on the unprecedented work of attempting to understand the lives of animals in the animals’ own particular underwater neighborhoods.
And these were strange neighborhoods, for sure! In a National Geographic article, Beebe likened the deep sea to
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