record at 3028 ft. Barton acted in the 1938 Hollywood movie, Titans of the Deep.

Later career

In 1949, Barton 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.

Barton wrote the book The World Beneath the Sea, published in 1953. Like

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