• Frederick Otis Barton Jr. (June 5, 1899 – April 15, 1992) was an American deep-sea diver, inventor and actor. Born in New York, the independently wealthy...
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  • William Beebe and Otis Barton using the Bathysphere. Beebe and Barton were the first to set ocean depth records in a device invented by Barton. The film was...
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    the American engineer Otis Barton, to be used by the naturalist William Beebe for studying undersea wildlife. Beebe and Barton conducted dives in the...
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    (13,123 ft) in the southern Atlantic Ocean. 1930: William Beebe and Otis Barton were the first humans to reach the deep sea when diving in the Bathysphere...
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    The Benthoscope was a deep sea submersible designed by Otis Barton after the Second World War. He hired the Watson-Stillman Company, who had earlier constructed...
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    withstanding the pressures of deeper parts of the ocean. The first dive of Otis Barton and William Beebe in their Bathysphere on June 11, 1930, to below 1400ft...
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    described by Beebe were confirmed to exist, except by his colleague Otis Barton, who descended with him in the submersible. At the time, the largest...
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  • politician Frederick Barton (pentathlete) (1900–1993), British pentathlete Frederick Otis Barton (1899–1992), American deep-sea diver Rick Barton (diplomat) (born...
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    leading to his 1930s dives in the Bathysphere, along with its inventor, Otis Barton, off the coast of Bermuda. This was the first time a biologist observed...
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  • of the diving apparatuses and of underwater life".)[citation needed] Otis Barton and William Beebe dived to 3028 feet using a bathysphere. 1935: The French...
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    in their natural environment were made in 1930 by William Beebe and Otis Barton who descended to 434 metres (1,424 ft) in the spherical steel Bathysphere...
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    number of other pioneering research efforts, including William Beebe and Otis Barton's 1932 dive where they conducted observations of animals and radio broadcasts...
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    Bathysphere dives, none of them were confirmed to exist. His colleague Otis Barton, who descended with him in the submersible, attested he had also seen...
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    to exist. The existence of all fishes were supported by his colleague Otis Barton, who descended with him in the submersible. Bathysidus Bathysphaera Ellis...
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    using a steel cable. The bathysphere was invented by William Beebe and Otis Barton in 1930. William Beebe, an American naturalist and undersea explorer...
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    Physiculus talarae (category Taxa named by Frederick Otis Barton Jr.)
    Actinopterygii Order: Gadiformes Family: Moridae Genus: Physiculus Species: P. talarae Binomial name Physiculus talarae Hildebrand & F. O. Barton, 1949...
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    Major League Baseball, such as Will Clark, Joe Girardi, and Chase Utley. Otis Barton, pioneer in deep water exploration Jacques Barzun, academic, critic,...
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  • germination and storage Michael Barton, American ichthyologist Otis Barton (1899–1992), American deep-sea diver Robert S. Barton (1925–2009), computer scientist...
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    Clarissa Harlowe Barton (December 25, 1821 – April 12, 1912) was an American nurse who founded the American Red Cross. She was a hospital nurse in the...
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  • shark that swallowed a camera from the American underwater photographer Otis Barton, which Hergé had encountered in a French illustrated magazine. The brief...
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    structures. A steel bathysphere created in 1930 by William Beebe and Otis Barton had three crystal glass windows made for observation. Observation bells...
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  • founder of the Cave Diving Group Michael C. Barnette (born September 1971) Otis Barton (5 June 1899 – 15 April 1992) George F. Bass (1932–2021), pioneer underwater...
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  • García Lorca, Spanish poet, playwright, and director (d. 1936) 1899 – Otis Barton, American diver, engineer, and actor, designed the bathysphere (d. 1992)...
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  • Edmond T. Gréville Made in Britain Titans of the Deep October 28, 1938 Otis Barton King of the Sierras November 9, 1938 Arthur Rosson Sunset Murder Case...
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  • and cinematographer The Women's World Games ended. William Beebe and Otis Barton broke their own deep-sea diving record, attaining a depth of 2,510 feet...
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    a small cemetery. In 1930 it served as a base for William Beebe and Otis Barton's landmark bathysphere dive. The island is a wildlife sanctuary. It is...
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  • killed in action. Sammy Price, 83, American pianist, heart attack. Otis Barton, 92, American deep-sea diver, inventor and actor. David Bosch, 62, South...
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  • pictures of an atomic blast [at Yucca Flat, Nevada, in 1952]; devised [with Otis Barton] a special camera for taking pictures 3600 feet beneath the surface of...
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    Barton County is a county located in the U.S. state of Kansas. Its county seat and most populous city is Great Bend. As of the 2020 census, the county...
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    Brown was elected the President of the Amoskeag Savings Bank to succeed Otis Barton. In June 1911 Brown was elected by the alumni to be a trustee of Dartmouth...
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