In 1932, a deep sea scientist and head of the tropical research department at the New York Zoological Society named William Beebe took it upon himself to be one of the first scientists to document and view the alien life below the surface of our oceans. He loaded himself into a bathysphere (a metal submersible ball that contains one window and has enough room to hold one full grown man) and dropped 2,100ft below the surface of the coast of Bermuda.