Before Cousteau
Category: GREEN
The ocean was still a great unknown in the years between the world wars, and some scientists speculated that the bottom was a "dead zone" where the pressure and darkness made life impossible. It was in this atmosphere of total uncertainty that William Beebe and Otis Barton built a hollow steel ball called the Bathysphere.
By Savannah Reich, ContributorPlaywright and screenwriter, 2014-11-19