A biographical account of engineer Otis Barton and naturalist Will Beebe's record-setting descent into the deep ocean in their Bathysphere craft, making the men the first humans to witness deep sea creatures in their natural habitat.
Presents a comprehensive narrative history of millionaire Otis Barton and explorer William Beebe and their extraordinary exploration of the depths of the ocean during the early 1930s going down further than anyone had previously gone.
Describes the 1934 dive of a bathysphere, or "sphere of the deep," in which two explorers, William Beebe and Otis Barton, set the world depth record and saw mysterious creatures of the deep ocean.
