Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-12-20
In OLD OCEANS DEPTHS.
WONDERS AND MYSTERIES OF
LIFE BENEATH THE WAVES.
Where Fishes Carry Lanterns-An
Almost Unknown World Blazing
with Moving Lights.

with Moving Lights.
TF the ocean bed, which is popu-
larly supposed to occupy three
fourths of the worlds surface,
, Z should suddenly be laid bare we
should in the main find duplicate
of terrestrial conditions. The bed of
the present ocean has at some time
been dry land has been cut by wind
and weather, washed into river beds
by streams; thrown up by volcanic
action into mountains, or elevated
and depressed by oscillations of the
crust 1t has undergone all the
changes of the land with which we are
familiar, and in measure resembles
it.
To make the ocean bed a reality /
will ask the reader to imagine that he
is equipped with divers armor capa-
BILE of resisting pressure and accom-
pany me into the deep sea. As we
descend into the blue depths we realize
that we have entered another world,
where to all intents and purposes the
water is the atmosphere. Ii we en-
taro5 +bo oooon on tho Poo;Eo oooe+
fran, tbo boocb wa would araauoIIw
n,oIil % 5an, aasv doscoat for 49,
,o;Ias. | and +ho somo 10 +rno of ~
At1aat;, A1,nost ;,nn,ad;otoin ~
Ill "a. tho+ ~ ~ 5o,.tL
of 500 feet it is comparatively dark
dasoonJ tbn srnIinbt orodnoiIv fail,
~. ,nt;l ~ . dan+S of y o,,ortor ofo
r. tbo dorlnass ia into,se ca for os
tba srn 10 concerned
T., sboIlon, rotor wo bora ,,o,sod
.bnarah +bo rar;on of obundop+ I;fo
49, tbe Sbore oro sohooIs Of non.
no;sae ;,nmonso whales +bot occ,sion
p aT,, nontrro for holow +ho snrfooa
@ "n5 numbor Of oir.hroatb;na @ fsb
,;l.a M anin,aia that ora Lant naer ~ +ha
snrr.co w bv tbeir strnctnre and ronrira,
,rants H. oro soboo1s 80 stsh
~ sain,on ord sordinos. and nossina is q
,"';-not;n1, hond 80 ooaI, Don,,or 40
nnss No. and 1onua +bor, hohind da.cand
r,',' ~ ~ dontI nf15oo faat ~ dori,nass
nro fnrnd An oloctr;c 1;abt wo,,IJ
shou sino,,lar chouaa Manv Of the
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- nnr;ro5 p ~, a. eide ohanma
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'.1.aI-Io IT, ~ ell =.
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aan,;not;a unro ora sa.r,ot sanin,a.
onals | om at;lt lilo ieas. otbars +bnt
~" | ,,1;nd naorn that oar,u +ba;, omn ~
I;ahts H. fon Ianc amo wa sou EU;nn,
ators n,oons m and oema+s in this ahrs
,,sai - tho+ sor,,o var;ot,'a
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Dasaand;no ;nta daonor do,4hs ,.o
IN ga re- M of tho 49, ' o'.,, W"
blind: nearly nil have phospborescent
Erhts. and their shapes and forms are
strange and uucanny. Sunlight does
not reach below 1000 fnthoms bevond
this no plant life exists, and the
various forms of life prev upon one
another. AMONG the deep-sea fishes
esneciallv there is constant worfore
ASSUMING that we are WALKING on
the ocean bottom Mt the deptb of over
n mile. we move cautiousl v alone in
water lev cold. and suddenly are con.
fronted with blaze of liohf. end find
ourselves in n field of EGbtoivprs
Imagine n cornfield with stalks from
two to four feet in height. the tins
cleaning with LIGHT and waving Gently
to and fro. Such an appearance the
fields of umbellnloria present OF
ST. Vincent the CHALLENGER dredoed in
n field of ligbt-piyino @orronias with
stems about two feet long. The trawl
came up choked with them from n
repion n mile below the surface. each
one emitting a vivid lilac.colored
loht
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