Sea view

摘要

On 11 June 1930, William Beebe and his companion Otis Barton crammed themselves into a 7ft hollow steel ball of questionable integrity to descend a quarter of a mile into the dark depths of the ocean.rnBuilt on the basis of a napkin sketch by Theodore Roosevelt, the 'bathysphere' was the first vehicle to give man a glimpse of what was previously thought to be a lifeless soup of dark water. The resulting account of a world of shifting light and bizarre sea creatures captured people's imaginations and began an era of ocean exploration.