Author: University of New Hampshire. Engineering Design and Analysis LaboratoryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Manned undersea research stations
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
University Sealab
Author: University of New Hampshire. Engineering Design and Analysis LaboratoryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Manned undersea research stations
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
Sealab
Author: Ben HellwarthPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439180423
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 411
Book Description
Sealab is the underwater Right Stuff: the compelling story of how a US Navy program sought to develop the marine equivalent of the space station—and forever changed man’s relationship to the sea. While NASA was trying to put a man on the moon, the US Navy launched a series of daring experiments to prove that divers could live and work from a sea-floor base. When the first underwater “habitat” called Sealab was tested in the early 1960s, conventional dives had strict depth limits and lasted for only minutes, not the hours and even days that the visionaries behind Sealab wanted to achieve—for purposes of exploration, scientific research, and to recover submarines and aircraft that had sunk along the continental shelf. The unlikely father of Sealab, George Bond, was a colorful former country doctor who joined the Navy later in life and became obsessed with these unanswered questions: How long can a diver stay underwater? How deep can a diver go? Sealab never received the attention it deserved, yet the program inspired explorers like Jacques Cousteau, broke age-old depth barriers, and revolutionized deep-sea diving by demonstrating that living on the seabed was not science fiction. Today divers on commercial oil rigs and Navy divers engaged in classified missions rely on methods pioneered during Sealab. Sealab is a true story of heroism and discovery: men unafraid to test the limits of physical endurance to conquer a hostile undersea frontier. It is also a story of frustration and a government unwilling to take the same risks underwater that it did in space. Ben Hellwarth, a veteran journalist, interviewed many surviving participants from the three Sealab experiments and conducted extensive documentary research to write the first comprehensive account of one of the most important and least known experiments in US history.
Congressional Record
Author: United States. CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1210
Book Description
The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)
Nor'easter
Author: U.S. Government Research & Development Reports
Author: University Curricula in the Marine Sciences and Related Fields
Author: Oceanography
Author: Defense Documentation Center (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Oceanography
Languages : en
Pages : 702
Book Description
Technical Report
Author: Research Reviews
Author: Design and Analysis of a Saturation Diving Facility for the National Oceanographic Community
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Manned undersea research stations
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description