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2 unusual facts about Otis Barton


J. R. Eyerman

Underwater photograph work with Otis Barton involved making a camera enclosure suitable for photographing the depths.

Otis Barton

In 1949, he 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.



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