Word: sealab
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Dates: during 1964-1964
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...Oceanologists, meanwhile, have not been idly waiting around for the Aluminaut to show up. This summer, in waters off Bermuda, the U.S. Navy has carried out an experiment in underwater living. For nine days last month four U.S. aquanauts lived in a cigar-shaped, 40-ft.-long contraption named Sealab 1, resting in the coral-covered crater of an extinct volcano 192 ft. below the surface. The experiment proved that aquanauts could live and work for long periods of time hundreds of feet below the surface, thus eliminating the need for repeated and lengthy decompressions and making practical such sustained...
...next step for Sealab is a deeper dive, possibly 300 ft. next summer, and then a month's stay at 600 ft. And this fall Reynolds Metals' Aluminaut is scheduled to undergo intensive sea trials off the Bahamas...