"What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what's going on." –Jacques-Yves Cousteau
SEALAB's Doctor Bond being interviewed with Conshelf's Jacuqes-Yves Cousteau
SEALAB was one of the most ambitious aquatic undertakings by the U.S. Navy.
U.S. Navy SEA-LAB Aquanauts: Bob Barth, Wilbur Eaton & Scott Carpenter
Team 1 Preparing To Dive Down To SEA-LAB 2 Habitat [August 28, 1965]
Rolex co-developed the SEA-DWELLER with U.S. NAVY SEALAB program. I originally learned this from interviewing Scott Carpenter who put me in touch with retired Rolex U.S.A. executive T. Walker Lloyd who essentially was the liaison between Rolex and SEALAB. I became close with T. Walker Lloyd and spent many hours interviewing him. To date I have published 3 hours of podcasts of those interviews which are absolutely fascinating!!!
American Experience: Sealab On a February day in 1969, off the shore of northern California, a US Navy crane carefully lowered 300 tons of metal into the Pacific Ocean. The massive tubular structure was an audacious feat of engineering - a pressurized underwater habitat, complete with science labs and living quarters for an elite group of divers who hoped to spend days or even months at a stretch living and working on the ocean floor. The Sealab project, as it was known, was the brainchild of a country doctor turned naval pioneer who dreamed of pushing the limits of ocean exploration the same way NASA was pushing the limits of space exploration. As Americans were becoming entranced with the effort to land a man on the moon, these divers, including one of NASA's most famous astronauts, were breaking depth barrier records underwater. Sealab tells the little-known story of the daring program that tested the limits of human endurance and revolutionized the way humans explore the ocean.
