Frederick Otis Barton
Frederick Otis Barton Jr., commonly known as Otis Barton (5 June 1899 – 15 April 1992) was an American engineer, inventor, film maker, and pioneering deep-sea diver.
Born in New York, the independently wealthy Barton designed the first bathysphere and made a dive with William Beebe off Bermuda in June 1930. They set the first record for deep-sea diving by descending 600 ft (180 m). In 1934, they set another record at 3,028 ft (923 m).
In 1949, Barton set a new world record with a 4,500 foot (1,372 m) dive in the Pacific Ocean, using his benthoscope (from the Greek benthos, meaning 'sea bottom', and scopein, 'to view'), which was designed by Barton and Maurice Nelles.
See Wikipedia entry. See also Wikipedia: Bathysphere.
Barton's first bathysphere was made from cast steel by Watson-Stillman Co (USA).[1]
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- ↑ 'The Frontier Below' by Jeff Maynard. William Collins, 2023