Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 July 1917 — Why Fish Will Fall Upward. [ARTICLE]

Why Fish Will Fall Upward.

The deep-sea fish are subject to a pressure internally, by gases, and externally of over two tons to the square inch, and under this pressure they are quite solid. When these fish are brought to the surface in nets jhe.r bodies become puffy, their bones loase and their eyes start out of their beads: very often they burst. This is because the pressure is released. When these fish of the deep sea chase their prey or rise for s< me reason high above the ocean bed- the gases of their swimming Madders expand and they become light. The fish whose muscles are not strong enouuh to take it down deeper into the ocean expands more and more until it ns- 1 - 5 upward to the surface and is killed, set that It really “falls upward.”