- US naturalist,
explorer, and writer. His interest in deep-sea exploration led to
a collaboration with the engineer Otis Barton and the development
of a spherical diving vessel, the bathysphere. On 24 Aug 1934 the
two men made a record-breaking dive to 923 m/3,028 ft.
Beebe was curator of birds for the New York Zoological Society 1899-1952.
He wrote the comprehensive Monograph of the Pheasants 1918-22, and
his expeditions are described in a series of memoirs.
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