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TIME has learned that the Victor III-class Soviet sub was forced to surface after its screw propellers became entangled in a 2-to 3-in.-thick steel undersea cable that was being used by a U.S. surveillance frigate to track the sub's movements. The mechanical mishap was I only the latest in a series of embarrassing setbacks for the Soviet fleet. In 1981 a diesel powered Soviet sub snooping in a restricted zone off the Swedish coast ran aground and had to be pulled to a safer anchor-age by Swedish tugboats. According to U.S. intelligence, another...
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...
...ship will operate with an aircraft carrier battle group, including attack submarines, to defend itself against air and undersea assault...
...century later, the image of the wreck haunted the imagination of Alexander McKee, a historian who skindived throughout the Solent in order to find the vessel. In 1966 he discovered a 19th century naval chart that marked the site of the sinking. Says McKee: "I was electrified." Using undersea scanning technology developed by Electrical Engineer Harold Edgerton of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, McKee found the remains of the Mary Rose buried in a watery depression. For four years the historian and a band of amateur divers dug away, sometimes with their bare hands, until they discovered a Tudor cannon...
...Earth sustains these strange communities. Now they are getting their chance. Under a $1.7 million grant from the National Science Foundation, the Alvin, on loan from the Navy, is making a new series of exploratory dives. The expedition is called "Oasis," and its target area is a region of undersea volcanic vents nearly 150 miles south of Baja California. The site is part of a seismically active region where lava oozes from fractures in the earth's crust...