Otis Barton

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Frederick Otis Barton Jr. (June 5, 1899 - April 15, 1992) is a diver, inventor, and marine actor within the United States.

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Early life and career

Born in New York, the wealthy Barton independently designed the first baths and diving with William Beebe of Bermuda in June 1930. They set the first record for diving in the deep sea with a height of 600 feet (180 m). In 1934, they set another record at 3,028 ft (923 m). Barton acted in the 1938 Hollywood movie, Titans of the Deep .

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Later career

In 1949, Barton set a new world record by diving 4,500 feet (1,372 m) in the Pacific Ocean, using his benthoscope (from the Greek , meaning 'seabed', and < i>, 'to view'), designed by Barton and Maurice Nelles.

Barton wrote the book The World Beneath the Sea , published in 1953. Like Beebe, Barton is also interested in exploring tropical rainforests, and spends much of his time in places like Gabon. In 1978, Barton successfully tested the "jungle ship" (actually an airplane) intended to film wildlife.

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References

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Further reading

• Matsen, Bradford. Descent - The Heroic Discovery of the Abyss , Pantheon Books, 2005. ISBN: 0375422587
• Matsen, Bradford. Extraordinary Inside Sea Diving from the Bathysphere . Berkeley Heights, NJ: Enslow Publishers, 2003. ISBNÃ, 0766021882
• Otis Barton, "Adventure on land and under the sea", Longmans, London, 1954.
• Biography of Otis Barton on the site of MIT School of Engineering

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External links

• "Three Hundred Fathoms Beneath The Sea", October 1930, Popular Mechanics
• Otis Barton on IMDb

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