Excerpt from a new book on the history on the bathysphere, with illustrations from the artist who drew deep sea creatures from verbal description before underwater photography could capture them.
Drawing the Deep Sea from a Seat on the Shore | Hakai Magazine
In the 1930s, artist Else Bostelmann illuminated in art what scientist William Beebe dictated to her from his cramped seat in a spherical steel bathysphere as it explored the deep sea off Bermuda. She also set up an underwater studio.
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