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Families in the Future. As a result of their experience, the aquanauts brought back recommendations for changes in future Sealab equipment. They found that the staging area, a 4-ft. by 6-ft. section where the divers change their suits, was too small. The ladder was not designed with flipper...
Gas Threat. Louisianans were too weary to panic when Army engineers reported that a barge loaded with 600 tons of liquid chlorine was missing. If the chlorine should escape, the engineers warned, a wave of deadly gas might engulf the delta. (Civilian chemists disagreed, said it might even help purify...
Sealab II will enable the U.S. partly to catch up with, and in several respects to exceed, the undersea exploits of France's Jacques-Yves Cousteau (TIME cover, March 28, 1960). He has stationed teams of divers at 80 ft. for one week. This week, in his third major...
Dr. Lundgren believes that the divers most prone to the dangers of dizziness are those who have suffered head colds recently, or severe ear infections even long ago. Head stuffiness makes it difficult for anyone to equalize the air pressure in his middle ears with that outside.
A decrease in pressure during ascent from the deeps may not be compensated quickly enough-and inequality of pressure in the two ears may upset the sense of balance. In the severe cases reported to Lundgren, some divers said that the surface or the bottom of the sea appeared to...