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Frederick Otis Barton, Jr. (June 5, 1899 – April 15, 1992) was an American deep-sea diver, inventor and actor.

Born in New York, the independently wealthy Barton designed the first bathysphere and made a dive with William Beebe off Bermuda in June 1930. They set the first record for deep-sea diving by descending 600 feet. In 1934 they set another record at 3028 feet.

He wrote the book "The World Beneath the Sea," published in 1953. He also acted in the Hollywood movie, Titans of the Deep.

In 1948, 14 years after he stopped working with Beebe, he made a new world record with a 4500 foot dive in the Pacific Ocean.

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