Cover image for Sealab : America's forgotten quest to live and work on the ocean floor
Title:
Sealab : America's forgotten quest to live and work on the ocean floor
ISBN:
9780743247450
Edition:
1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.
Publication Information:
New York : Simon & Schuster, c2012.
Physical Description:
388 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Contents:
A deep escape -- Diving -- Genesis -- Friendly rivals -- Depth and duration -- Experimental divers -- Deep loss, deeper thinking -- Triangle trials -- "Breathe!" -- The Tiltin' Hilton -- Lessons in survival -- The third team -- The damn hatch -- An investigation -- The oil patch -- The rivals' press on -- The projects -- Answers and questions.
Summary:
The story of how a U.S. Navy program sought to develop the marine equivalent of the space station-- and forever changed man's relationship to the sea. We learn of men unafraid to test the limits of physical endurance to conquer a hostile undersea frontier-- and of a government unwilling to take the same risks underwater that it did in space.
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