Craig is temporarily a post-doctoral fellow at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute who is looking for a permanent position. He spends most of his time balancing his overwhelming geekdom with normalcy so he can function in the real world. Luckily his wife likes his geekiness.
Peter Etnoyer is a Graduate Research Associate at the Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. He studies deep corals and ocean fronts, and he loves to be on the water.
Kevin Zelnio is a Graduate Student Researcher at Penn State studying the ecology of hydrothermal vent and methane seep communities. He raises awareness of the plight of the spineless through folk music.
The American Museum of Natural History in NYC put up old black and white pictures in an online exhibit called Picturing the Museum. Brian at Laelaps picked out some dinosaurliscious ones. Below is one from 1937 titles "Boys examining Bathysphere, Hall of Ocean Life". I can only imagine the awe they must be feeling with only a few years earlier that hunk of metal was down in the deepest trench of our oceans. What do they think they are saying to each other? This calls for a caption contest!
Hat tip to the disperser, Michael B.
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"Open it already, Hal. '2001' hasn't even been written yet."
Posted by: Jeff Darcy | June 24, 2008 10:13 AM
Smells like Barton was fartin' in here.
Posted by: Jason R | June 24, 2008 10:19 AM
Pull the lever, Leonard; flush 'im down!
Posted by: Matt Platte | June 24, 2008 10:35 AM
I was going to go for "I'm sorry. I can't do that Dave".
*shakes fist at Jeff*
Posted by: Bob O'H | June 24, 2008 10:39 AM
Young Barton (right), Beebe (inside), and Wushniezer (left) contemplate the first model made of toothpicks and chewing gum of the bathysphere. Wushniezer was later dropped from the group to improve alliteration and for his poor choice in ties.
Posted by: CR McClain | June 24, 2008 10:45 AM
Here's mine.
Posted by: Jives | June 24, 2008 11:14 AM
Beebe and Barton's historic 1934 dive was only to a depth of a little over 3,000 feet. The bathysphere was tethered to the surface, which put a limit on the maximum depth.
The descent to the Challenger Deep would have to wait for the Piccards' development of the free floating bathyscaphe (which was essentially a bathysphere hanging from an underwater balloon).
Quibbling aside, when this picture was taken, the bathysphere would have the same iconic status that a Mercury capsule would have a generation later.
Posted by: John | June 24, 2008 11:32 AM
"Because the buzzer's broke Timmy. Just let us know when everything's dry, okay?"
Posted by: Will Grant | June 24, 2008 3:02 PM
fellow on right to fellow on left:
Now pay attention, Dobson... I'm only going over this one more time!
You fart BEFORE we lock the freshman in the bathysphere, NOT after!
Got it?
Posted by: Rick MacPherson | June 24, 2008 10:36 PM
Viewers complained that the programming seen on the first television set prototype (pictured) was too... 'familiar'.
Posted by: Matt Morton | June 25, 2008 3:28 AM
"No, Jimmie... it's not because you are inside the bathyshere, and it's not because I have cotton stuffed in my ears... I can't hear you because Tod's tie is too dang loud!"
Posted by: Matt Morton | June 25, 2008 3:32 AM
As long as we're going after wardrobe.
Posted by: Jives | June 25, 2008 9:57 AM
So then Mary said he put his hand...Wait, you don't think he can read lips, do you?
Posted by: Judith | June 25, 2008 12:56 PM
So then Alvie said he...Wait, you don't think he can read lips, do you?
Posted by: Judith | June 25, 2008 1:41 PM