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...wasn’t exactly a banner year for new American television. It saw the premieres of “Maude,” “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve,” and “Sealab 2020”—influential for their time, certainly, but I don’t think you want to order those DVD box sets any more than I do. However, “M*A*S*H” holds up, and beautifully...
Scott Carpenter, 58, moved on from the Mercury program to become an "aquanaut" in the Navy's Sealab program. Since then he has pursued various oceanographic ventures but admits to having "difficulty finding a good, solid third career." Today he lives in the San Fernando Valley outside Los Angeles and works part-time giving speeches and consulting. He and his second wife, Maria Roach, 36, have two young sons, and Carpenter describes himself as mainly a "father-in-residence...
DIED. George Bond, 67, chief scientific investigator and senior medical officer for the Navy's Sealab missions, which tested human capacity to live and work undersea; of heart disease; in Charlotte, N.C. Bond developed a process of saturating body tissues with a mix of helium and oxygen to withstand pressure. In the first two Sealab missions (1964-65), aquanauts spent nine days or more in a 57-ft.-long steel cylinder some 200 ft. below the ocean's surface. Observing from above, "Papa Topside" found that the men could function but became susceptible to the "breakaway phenomenon," suffering...
Series of Leaks. Late in the week a Navy investigation revealed that "one of the diving rigs in use by Sealab divers was equipped with an empty Bar-alyme canister." Without the Baralyme, which absorbs carbon dioxide exhaled by the diver, the gas builds up in the system and can eventually cause suffocation. "This could explain the tragic event," said a Navy spokesman, and indeed, an autopsy revealed "a greatly excessive" amount of carbon dioxide in Cannon's blood. Navy officials ordered a halt to all diving. Sealab 3, still leaking helium, was brought to the surface and lifted...
...tragedy marked still another lengthy setback for the Sealab project, which is already about two years behind schedule. Designed to help man learn the techniques and develop the equipment that will enable him to live and work for long periods under the sea, the project has been beset by delays. First there was a steel strike; then some of the steel that was delivered turned unexpectedly brittle at low temperatures. Redesign of the oxygen system was called for after the fatal Apollo fire, and that was followed by a series of seawater and helium leaks. At week...