Frederick Otis Barton, Jr. Charles William ("Will" Beebe ( July 29, 1877 &ndash June 4, 1962) was an American naturalist, explorer (June 5, 1899 – April 15, 1992) was an American deep-sea diver, inventor and actor. Events 70 - Titus and his Roman Legions breach the middle wall of Jerusalem in the Siege of Jerusalem Year 1899 ( MDCCCXCIX) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Events 1450 - Battle of Formigny: Toward the end of the Hundred Years' War, the French attack and nearly annihilate English Year 1992 ( MCMXCII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar) The United States of America —commonly referred to as the This article refers to underwater diving by humans For other uses of the term diving see Dive and Diving Underwater diving is An inventor is a person who creates or discovers a new method form device or other useful means An actor, actress, player or thespian (see terminology) is a person who Acts in a Dramatic production and who works
Born in New York, the independently wealthy Barton designed the first bathysphere and made a dive with William Beebe off Bermuda in June 1930. New York ( is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States and is the nation's third most populous Charles William ("Will" Beebe ( July 29, 1877 &ndash June 4, 1962) was an American naturalist, explorer Ba (officially The Bermuda Islands or The Somers Isles) is a British overseas territory in the North Atlantic Ocean. Year 1930 ( MCMXXX) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display 1930 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. They set the first record for deep-sea diving by descending 600 feet. In 1934 they set another record at 3028 feet. Year 1934 ( MCMXXXIV) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display full 1934 calendar of the Gregorian calendar.
Barton wrote the book "The World Beneath the Sea," published in 1953. Year 1953 ( MCMLIII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. He also acted in the Hollywood movie, Titans of the Deep. In 1949, he set a new world record with a 4,500 foot (1,372 m) dive in the Pacific Ocean, using his benthoscope (from the Greek benthos, meaning 'sea bottom', and scopein, 'to view'), which he designed himself. Year 1949 ( MCMXLIX) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The Pacific Ocean is the largest of the Earth 's Oceanic divisions [1]
Like Beebe, Barton was also interested in exploring tropical rain forests, and spent considerable time in places like Gabon. Gabon (gəˈbɒn or /gaˈbõ/ in French) is a country in west central Africa sharing borders with Equatorial Guinea, Cameroon, Republic In 1978 Barton successfully tested a "jungle spaceship" (actually an airship) that was intended to film wildlife. Terminology In some countries airships are also known as dirigibles from the French (fr ''diriger'' to direct plus -ible) meaning "directable"
References
- Brad Matsen. "Descent - The Heroic Discovery of the Abyss", Pantheon Books, (2005).
- Otis Barton, "Adventure on land and under the sea", Longmans, London, (1954).
- Biography of Otis Barton on the website of the MIT School of Engineering
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