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02791aam a2200433 i 4500 001 7EEC5E90495811EE9228709642ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230902011803 008 220914s2023 nyua b 000 0 eng 010 $a 2022041945 020 $a 1662601905 020 $a 9781662601903 (hardcover) 035 $a (OCoLC)1345220928 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCF $d IFK $d JQW $d OCLCA $d YDX $d QS3 $d ILC $d AOW $d YUS $d HQC $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a GC63.B38 $b F68 2023 082 00 $a 551.4609 $2 23/eng/20221118 100 1 $a Fox, Brad $q (Bradley), $e author. 245 14 $a The Bathysphere book : $b effects of the luminous ocean depths / $c Brad Fox. 250 $a First edition. 260 $a New York : $b Astra House, $c [2023] 300 $a 336 pages : $b color illustrations ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references. 505 0 $a First glimpse -- Spectral visions -- Sinking lower -- Upside down -- Blunderbuss -- Falling -- The deepest dives -- Underwriting -- Surfacing -- Summer -- Invisibilities -- Ink spills everywhere -- Silence and solitude -- Leaving the body behind -- Recent sighting. 520 $a "A gorgeous account of William Beebe's 1934 Bathysphere expedition, the first-ever deep-sea voyage to the otherworldly environment 3,024 feet below sea level"-- $c Provided by publisher. 520 $a Summer, 1930. Aboard a ship floating near the Atlantic island of Nonsuch, marine biologist Gloria Hollister sat 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. In writing about this first encounter with the unknown depths, Fox dramatizes new visions of our planetary home-- and shares tales of the colorful characters who surrounded, supported, and participated in the dives: groundbreaking scientists, gallivanting adventurers, and eugenicist billionaires. -- $c adapted from jacket 600 10 $a Barton, Otis. 600 10 $a Beebe, William, $d 1877-1962. 611 20 $a Bathysphere Expedition $d (1934) 650 0 $a Underwater exploration $x History. 650 0 $a Deep-sea sounding. 650 0 $a Explorers $v Biography. 655 0 $a Biographies. 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 lcgft 941 $a 3 952 $l UNUX074 $d 20240302013439.0 952 $l XXPH787 $d 20230913010354.0 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20230902012411.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=7EEC5E90495811EE9228709642ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search