{"id":5550,"date":"2023-03-14T05:00:42","date_gmt":"2023-03-14T05:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/photold.org\/?p=5550"},"modified":"2023-03-14T05:00:42","modified_gmt":"2023-03-14T05:00:42","slug":"william-beebe-center-with-his-bathysphere-deep-sea-exploration-vessel-1932","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pressnavigator.hu\/photold\/2023\/03\/14\/william-beebe-center-with-his-bathysphere-deep-sea-exploration-vessel-1932\/","title":{"rendered":"William Beebe (center) with his bathysphere deep sea exploration vessel, 1932."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='booster-block booster-read-block'><\/div><p>At the beginning of the 20th century, renowned naturalist William Beebe, along with engineer Otis Barton, pioneered a new way of exploring the depths of the ocean. In 1932, Beebe and Barton set off on a remarkable journey in their revolutionary bathysphere \u2013 a small, spherical vessel that could dive to an incredible 3,028 feet below the surface of the ocean.<\/p>\n<p>The bathysphere featured a steel frame, lined with an inch of lead, and a viewing port made of three inch-thick glass. It was equipped with life-saving tanks of oxygen and communication cables so Beebe and Barton could stay submerged for hours at a time.<\/p>\n<p>Using their bathysphere, Beebe and Barton made a number of dives and collected vast amounts of data about the previously unexplored depths of the ocean. Their work provided a wealth of new information about oceanic life, and inspired generations of deep sea explorers who would come after them.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/photold.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-19.jpg?ssl=1\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5551\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/photold.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-19.jpg?resize=720%2C720&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" title=\"image-19-jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5551\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pressnavigator.hu\/photold\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-19.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pressnavigator.hu\/photold\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-19.jpg?resize=80%2C80&amp;ssl=1 80w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pressnavigator.hu\/photold\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-19.jpg?resize=720%2C720&amp;ssl=1 720w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the beginning of the 20th century, renowned naturalist William Beebe, along with engineer Otis Barton, pioneered a new way of exploring the depths of the ocean. In 1932, Beebe and Barton set off on a remarkable journey in their revolutionary bathysphere \u2013 a small, spherical vessel that could dive to an incredible 3,028 feet below the surface of the ocean. The bathysphere featured a steel frame, lined with an inch of lead, and a viewing port made of three inch-thick glass. It was equipped with life-saving tanks of oxygen and communication cables so Beebe and Barton could stay submerged &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pressnavigator.hu\/photold\/2023\/03\/14\/william-beebe-center-with-his-bathysphere-deep-sea-exploration-vessel-1932\/\" class=\"more-link\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">William Beebe (center) with his bathysphere deep sea exploration vessel, 1932.<\/span> r\u00e9szletei&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[78,2319,2316,379,2320,2323,2322,2318,2321,1473,2317],"class_list":["post-5550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-photo","tag-78","tag-bathysphere","tag-beebe","tag-center","tag-deepseaexploration","tag-marinebiology","tag-oceanlife","tag-otisbarton","tag-underwaterexploration","tag-william","tag-williambeebe","post_format-post-format-image","has-post-thumbnail","fallback-thumbnail"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressnavigator.hu\/photold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressnavigator.hu\/photold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressnavigator.hu\/photold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressnavigator.hu\/photold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressnavigator.hu\/photold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5550"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pressnavigator.hu\/photold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5552,"href":"https:\/\/pressnavigator.hu\/photold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5550\/revisions\/5552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressnavigator.hu\/photold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressnavigator.hu\/photold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressnavigator.hu\/photold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}