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The Bathysphere Book Effects of the Luminous Ocean Depths [Audiobook]


Free Download The Bathysphere Book: Effects of the Luminous Ocean Depths (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C4BGHPB7 | 2023 | 6 hours and 35 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 359 MB
Author: Brad Fox
Narrator: Lee Osorio

A wide-ranging, philosophical, and sensual account of early deep-sea exploration and its afterlives, The Bathysphere Book begins with the first ever voyage to the deep ocean in 1930 and expands to explore the adventures and entanglements of its all-too-human participants at a time when the world still felt entirely new. In the summer of 1930, aboard a ship floating near the Atlantic island of Nonsuch, marine biologist Gloria Hollister sat on a crate, writing furiously in a notebook with a telephone receiver pressed to her ear. The phone line was attached to a steel cable that plunged 3,000 feet into the sea. There, suspended by the cable, dangled a four-and-a-half-foot steel ball called the bathysphere. Crumpled inside, gazing through three-inch quartz windows at the undersea world, was Hollister’s colleague William Beebe. He called up to her, describing previously unseen creatures, explosions of bioluminescence, and strange effects of light and color.

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The Bathysphere Book


Free Download The Bathysphere Book by Brad Fox
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1911590855 | 344 pages | PDF | 12 Mb
11 June, 1930. On a ship floating near the Atlantic island of Nonsuch, a curious steel ball is lowered 3000 feet into the sea. Crumpled up inside, gazing through three-inch thick quartz windows, sits the famed zoologist William Beebe. With uncontrollable excitement, he watches as bizarre, never-before-seen creatures flit out of the inky blackness, illuminated by explosions of bioluminescence. He is the first person to witness this alien world.

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