Frederick Otis Barton Jr. was an American deep-sea diver, inventor and actor, born in New York in 1899. The independently wealthy Barton designed the first bathysphere and made a dive with William Beebe off Bermuda in June 1930, setting the first record for deep-sea diving by descending 600 feet. In 1934 they set another record at 3,028 feet. In 1949 he set a new world record with a 4,500 foot dive in the Pacific Ocean using his benthoscope, designed with Maurice Nelles. He wrote the book The World Beneath the Sea, published in 1953, acted in the 1938 film Titans of the Deep, and tested an airship intended for filming wildlife in 1978. He died in 1992.
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Frederick Otis Barton Jr. (June 5, 1899, April 15, 1992)
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in New York, the independently wealthy Barton designed the first bathysphere and made a dive with William Beebe off
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Frederick Otis Barton Jr. (June 5, 1899, April 15, 1992) was an American deep-sea diver, inventor and actor.
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Born in New York, the independently wealthy Barton designed the first bathysphere and made a dive with William Beebe off Bermuda in June 1930.
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