https://blog.wcs.org/photo/2014/08/15/william-beebe-an-awed-human-being/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=william-beebe-an-awed-human-being An Eye on Wildlife Mon, 03 Aug 2026 11:22:58 +0000 hourly 1 https://blog.wcs.org/photo/2014/08/15/william-beebe-an-awed-human-being/#comment-123894 Fri, 04 Apr 2025 22:56:06 +0000 http://blog.wcs.org/photo/?p=413#comment-123894 […] explorations of South American tropical forests to their oceanographic research cruises and their deep-sea studies in the Bathysphere, the DTR helped shape the modern discipline of field […]

]]> https://blog.wcs.org/photo/2014/08/15/william-beebe-an-awed-human-being/#comment-197 Sat, 16 Aug 2014 14:54:27 +0000 http://blog.wcs.org/photo/?p=413#comment-197 Last night, on the deep dive’s 80th anniversary, I looked in the window of the bathysphere that Beebe and Barton shared on their expedition. A small space indeed for the big science that came from it. Worth a trip to the New York Aquarium to see it and the gallery of art that shows what its occupants saw when they looked out.

]]> https://blog.wcs.org/photo/2014/08/15/william-beebe-an-awed-human-being/#comment-189 Fri, 15 Aug 2014 11:11:23 +0000 http://blog.wcs.org/photo/?p=413#comment-189 […] Today we celebrate the historic scientific expeditions that William Beebe undertook in the Bathysphere–including his record-setting dive to the deepest depths ever ventured by a human on August 15, 1934. To read the rest of this post, check out the WCS Photo blog, Wild View. […]

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