Otis Barton
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Frederick Otis Barton Jr. (June 5, 1899 – April 15, 1992) was an American deep-sea diver, inventor and actor.
Early life and careerEdit
Born in New York, the independently wealthy Barton designed the first bathysphere and made a dive with William Beebe off Bermuda in June 1930. They set the first record for deep-sea diving by descending Template:Convert. In 1934, they set another record at Template:Convert. Barton acted in the 1938 Hollywood movie, Titans of the Deep.
Later careerEdit
In 1949, Barton 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 was designed by Barton and Maurice Nelles.<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Barton wrote the book The World Beneath the Sea, published in 1953. Like Beebe, Barton was also interested in exploring tropical rain forests, and spent considerable time in places like Gabon. In 1978, Barton successfully tested a "jungle spaceship" (actually an airship) that was intended to film wildlife.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Taxon described by himEdit
ReferencesEdit
Further readingEdit
- Matsen, Bradford. Descent - The Heroic Discovery of the Abyss, Pantheon Books, 2005. Template:ISBN
- Matsen, Bradford. The Incredible Record-Setting Deep-Sea Dive of the Bathysphere. Berkeley Heights, NJ: Enslow Publishers, 2003. Template:ISBN
- 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
External linksEdit
- "Three Hundred Fathoms Beneath The Sea", October 1930, Popular Mechanics
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