Abstract
DR. WILLIAM BEEBE is the born adventurer. To him the thrill of arriving where man has never arrived before is an unfailing stimulus to further exploits. When he turns from the tropical jungle and the desert to the ocean he does not rest until, inside a hollow steel ball, he has penetrated its depths to a distance of 3,028 feet beneath the surface. Even as he is making his hazardous journey down into the unknown the messages he sends along the telephone line to the surface reveal the driving spirit of the venture:
Half Mile Down
By Dr. William Beebe. Pp. xix + 344 + 88 plates. (London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, Ltd., 1935.) 18s. net.
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Penetrating Ocean Depths. Nature 136, 586–587 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/136586b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/136586b0
