Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
6.3
Points
1.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
5429
Points per Word
0.000184
Page Count
48
Points per Page
0.020833
Description
This book describes the 1934 dive of a bathysphere, or "sphere of the deep," in which two explorers, William Beebe and Otis Barton, set the world depth record and saw mysterious creatures of the deep ocean.