considerin city on the edge of the
street at the rim of the nation
dependent on the beach on a continent
surrounded by the waters and 15 a mere
island as are all of minority parts of
the planet we call the land from here
that Nations and see the unending see is
a kind of symbolic road to distant
responsibilities distant friends and
enemies resources we must have to
survive let alone hostage consider the
shore is somewhat more than just a beach
for it is in fact a dividing line for
the two parts of the earth the only
place in all the universe so divided for
all we know to be hotter or more of
seven seas but of one thing indivisible
this single seed that Rings the planet
that covers our world from northern ice
to southern ice the single sea covering
untold empires of mountain and canyon
obtain and deaths a home for living
things far more akin to us that the life
elsewhere it any mountain state a
treasure trove for vital resources as we
are just begin to but one piece for all
it swirls and roars for all its rest and
yet for all its nearness a realm unto
itself
gloat over it fly over it move within it
wrap in your old familiar atmosphere
enjoy the hobbies the sports the
diversions of it all
but before the immensity and the wonders
of the sea before all that it is that we
do not know we have the diphthong close
to begin as long last to do more to go
further men have begun to go down to the
sea not promised not to say within us
but to dwell to live for a while
good uber examples a Bermuda
neighborhood of procedures here in
Sealab one more man lived and worked for
eleven days at the depth of 193 feet but
how long and how many men were live and
survive at how great again without
coming do not know the limits yet now it
is a year later men are ready to extend
the limit if they can hear another
adventure is in the readying state
another exploration into that hostile
alien place we call the thief
here within the sovereign waters of our
America the political frontier is but
three miles from the shore but the
intellectual frontier is only a few feet
below the way for we know so little
about so much of all this unknown Empire
that begins before our very eyes on
every tour captain Lewis Melton
commanding along with George Brown also
a captain in the United States Navy and
the Doctor of Medicine now make ready
for Sealab - one mile off the shore of
La Jolla California captain Tony nice
running contr what's our absolute
pleasure in Sealab actually as Navy
divers riggers prepares a lower Sealab
to the bottom 205 feet below the
question becomes can men go even deeper
stay even longer and work not only hard
but skillfully - what indeed are the
limits on fish and blood beneath the
wave never before Sealab one had men
lived so longer than the sea at such a
depth but the state of record is to stay
to challenge that eternal American
question what next if man need not
return to the surface periodically
taking a long time to decompress those
potentially fatal bubbles within his
body it can be infinitely more
productive down below but suddenly if
Sealab is being lowered man van we're
losing pressure pretty fast
I would imagine we have a leak here well
as a diver eject early
this was an unconventional kind of peak
where the helium atmosphere inside the
sea lab was being forced by its own
pressure to escape death alone it
Diaries report leaks at all four counts
are we still losing gas rapidly gasoline
I think we could probably stay ahead
very well
diving stations let's continue to lower
away
we can't stop I repeat we can't stop at
60 foot four checked we're losing gas we
have only eight thousand cubic feet of
helium to get to the bottom we must
continue to lower away became a reef get
Sealab to the bottom right now where the
approximately equal pressures would keep
the water out the vital gas is in and so
205 feet down jumpers only seal out on
the bottom is holding it about 102
pounds absolute very well
the personnel transfer capsule or PPP go
down first in case anything goes wrong
in the cielab capsule the PTP gets us
the same pressure of the sea lab itself
will be the one refuge for the man it
will also be their elevator for the ride
back to the surface when their stay is
over 15 days later two other 10 man
teams will follow versland keeps to
remain 15 days excepting scott Carpenter
however the astronaut who's to become an
acronym will remain below 30 consecutive
days among the ten men are a doctor and
engineer and to oceanography master
diver flight and captain Walter Mazzoni
in charge of physiological and
atmospheric control witness to the
partner the first team is to get the
Sealab habitat operating we explore the
sea around it to study marine life and
the flow and temperature of the water
and to be in themselves human
experiments in the physiology of man as
the exist and labors within the seat
down here you can paste if prices for
what would be small mistakes on the land
of one year the surface
while Wilbur rigged a lifeline to the
Sealab Commander Scott Cawthon bear the
team leader enters through an open
interface of water held at bay by the
equal pressures within the capsule
diving stations aquanauts sharpener and
even another seal a two grand Ranma a
second that's our game it will be rare
than a private I'm so bored the end of
August for 45 days he lab to experiment
begins the men go down into a know taken
multi bit of the ocean far more typical
of the ocean of the whole the most
crystalline technical essence Oscar you
go down they go accompanied always never
alone in deep-sea diving you owe your
life sooner or later to the buddy system
inside Sealab you begin your life as an
alien to this realm by breathing an
atmosphere of eighty percent helium 16
percent nitrogen and only four percent
oxygen for ordinary air would be a
deadly gas mixture at these pressures of
100 pounds per square inch
seven times those of sea level it is
almost as if you were on another planet
so you are within the territorial waters
of the United States Ecuador carpenter
exchanges greetings with astronaut
Gordon Cooper orbiting the Earth in
Gemini five history's first chat between
the bottom of the sea and all the good
again
imagine now the routine of 45 days to
meet see exploring the cold depths where
water temperatures range between 48 and
52 degrees setting outlines to the
underwater weather station mapping
receiver even taking a census of the
region the kind of sampled inventory of
a future food supply for the
proliferating human race this offshore
region of the ocean is known as the
continental shelf which had gol
accompanied an explorable realm three
times the size of the United States for
seafood and mineral a new realm for
travel and rest study and with today's
fantasy turns out to be tomorrow's
routines often
already if you take the fisheye view the
interlopers are making themselves at
home
what is physiological normalcy at seven
times the pressure of the land breathing
a strange gas mixture day after day
doctor Sonnenberg medical and residents
attending topside captain's bond and
Mazzoni decide to have a look-see at
their charges 205 feet down since they
will be down only a short time they will
get off easy on the decompression
stopping every few feet on the way back
up in the diving bell
a very cold 73 minutes coming up for the
scan 13 minutes they are allowed on the
bunker it turns out the captain's bond
and Mazzoni intend to witness the
reenlistment swearing-in ceremony of
Akwa not Kaufman proving that officers
will sink to any depths to hold onto a
good man if you are a marine biologist
can you imagine a more ideal aquarium
than the sea itself to which you to at
least for a while
along
the cold Blackwater was not an
attractive medium for work but in their
early forays the act Ranaut's managed to
install the underwater Webber's he's a
feminine impatient and so from the
shifting sands of the bottom lands from
the pores and direction of the internal
waves he will yield in good time and bit
by bit a few of its mystery man too has
his mistakes he submits to frequent
mathematical testing and even to
electrocardiogram both in and out of the
water as a constant check on his life
the question always what is normalcy
under high pressure and a strange
gasping
food supplies mail and newspapers come
to you via United States Navy pressure
pump and exclusive service others may
imitate but never quite duplicate happy
birthday dr. Sundberg but it was your
loving wife was responsible not the
United States Navy pressure pod Express
service anyhow you can't strike a match
and helium atmosphere there just isn't
enough oxygen to make it burn good place
to keep the smoking habit whenever you
exit for a look-see
bear in mind as the cielab habitats of
your compulsory home cannot just rise to
the surface emergency or not rapid
decompression would kill you must take
care not to get lost in the dark waters
among the hazards of the deeper the
Scorpion to the first act were not to be
stung by one was carpenter was hit on
the right index finger causing his arm
to swell all the way up to the elbow the
pain was sharp and intense but no matter
how serious the wound even if it were
potentially fatal you do not return to
the surface where now an inhabitant
could see until you decompress for 30
hours or more under dr. bonds topside
instructions doctor Sonnenberg treated
the wound
aided by special drugs stopped right in
the Sealab
with three members of team two already
on board the first team waits to depart
15 days after success its farewell to
carpenter who will remain below another
15 days the ascent will be a matter of a
54 minute elevator ride in the personnel
transfer capsule after which 31 hours in
the deck decompression chamber will
return the nine men to terrestrial
season we keep in touch with topside by
electro writer and topside keeps an eye
on you big brother like with its one-way
television monitor while the rest of
team 2 makes its way down with one of
them called
the longest 200 feet in the world
carpenter holds quarters with the
members of the second team he who had
worked with the most sophisticated
technology of our age in the
prototypical space program contrasted it
with the man in the C program which he
called a newly legitimatize child of
represented by a nucleus of 50 dedicated
man working with mail-order equipment in
marginal conditions but it is pioneers
like these members of this new
establishment the descendants who are
helping this newly legitimate Dyess
child grow up
today's sonar copying it's listening ear
to the sounds of the deep will give way
to better more sensitive longer range
sonar and the current measurement device
is but the progenitor of Oceanwide
systems to thwart the nature of the
waters and the migration of marine life
in terms of temperature and current for
all that man is as a trial down here his
basic motor skills cannot be taken for
granted
nor can he depend much on his five
senses in this cold murky top-heavy
realm of water
you develop a certain gladness to be
home home we feel iam breathing clouded
celibate teetotaling home with its
constant tests and measurements and
check relieved now and then by Papa
topsides folk symphony are you like our
Oh
the Z labs own Symphony comes complete
with the curious sound that the
breathing helium imparts to the human
voice
into the social realm of mountains and
canyons rains and plateau who will play
the role of things when our dog to aid
those in distress we learn to come at
once to an acoustic signal who learn to
carry Mayo and the lifeline to a diver
pretending to be lost who visited the
Aqua not securing their bottom landfill
raise cool but Tuffy the porpoise first
of the trained breed who may become
man's best friend within the sea Sunday
was normally a day of comparative rest
the day made more meaningful bubble feel
a prayer they care all the many hours of
their life under the sea give unusual
wisdom to each of us topside who might
somehow control their work maybe in they
perform their duties below when they're
working I will together be done Travis
all was safe and worthy rested from our
Labour's towards a MacDonald
we asked all this in the name
the stood 30 days past a methodical in
persistent sequence of work inside and
outside the habitat of
catch-as-catch-can meals and
housekeeping of human measurements and
evaluation under high pressures now the
second team makes ready to depart
scott Carpenter along with them after
their span of 15 days is a thirty into
the personnel transfer capsule and as
medical wisdom has it 33 hours of
decompression on the support vessel in
the decks decompression chamber
decompression is the cost the divers
bear meanwhile the third team of ten men
prepares to depart for interstate led by
master diver Robert Keefe at 50 the
oldest of the Aquanaut it's getting to
be a kind of routine the almost
inevitable destiny of things that seem
fantastic if they're very outset whether
it be a flight across the ocean or even
a man in order to make the fallout and
everyday affair is after all the prime
purpose of all our technology widely
decompresses commander carpenter has a
phone chat Daily News helium Voice with
his commander in chief professor God you
read me off left that up above us a lot
on fire hello all right we got the
mighty glad to hear from you you've
convinced me and all the nation what are
you going up or down you have the
courage and the skill to do a fine job
let's go a lot of an American
photographer person wrote miraculous I
love leather fabric apart
Sandra out of Norwich my room
then comes that happy moment when you
become except for your memories like
other men again reading the natural
atmosphere of Mother Earth while down
below dr. Sonnenberg who was returned
for a second 15-day stint wrestles with
that electrically heated diving suit
that will permit three-hour journeys
away from Sealab in comparative comfort
the poem objective of the third team was
to try new underwater salvage techniques
using a special foam they raised barrels
and an aircraft health from the bottom
with special talk free tools working on
the explosive principle they attached
plates from lifting surfaces to quarter
the submarine haul older tools like the
spear and officials can be very useful
to you may not like sashimi that
Japanese delicately roughly translated
as raw fish but sighing is supposin down
here hydrocarbon smoke doesn't mix well
with helium and a delicate man-made
atmosphere this team and team - who made
excursion dives to the rim of the
underwater Canyon 266 feet below the
surface master diver sheets however went
with another man to the 300 foot mark
followed thereafter by other members of
the team
afterwards they dined on plankton that
floating microscopic life of the sea
being it tasted like mad
but always you dive with another man not
far away the brief history of deep
diving is proved time after time that
the best of divers need to help
desperately
sooner or later equipment can fail and
Men can go astray
in this pathless world in the murk of
the seafloor you see a hint of the
future mining bye boss recording a
miniaturized sample of what one day may
be gigantic machines gathering minerals
from the bottom line
work to be done
where existence alone is the kind of
crime where the astronauts discovered
you could make restyle
100 feet lower than Sealab and return to
it without decompressing this in itself
is a bonus from nature
45 days of passed since the first 10 men
came to Livia and now the time has come
for Anchors Away were men and hardware
to the last swimmed was the PTC elevator
for the men of Sealab cleverly thought
the ranchers and shut and all they are
to anybody to come up a very well same
operator this is command them EPC is
ready for liftoff left away
a crucial moment of the personnel
transfer capsule breaks walk it contains
10 men still under sea bottom pressure
must be compressed slowly or die a
faulty valve a leak a single mistake of
the many that are possible could turn
the capsule into a topic as it is the
ancient art of rigging is not the least
of the skills you need in this
particular kind of oceanography the
making of a personnel transfer capsule
with the deck decompression chamber now
begins the long wait decompression from
100 pounds per square inch to 14 and
7/10 pounds per square inch from 205
feet below the sea level but at the 28
foot mark almost home
trouble record on your oscillations life
getting run down on me yes captain
high of a pretty decent day in my right
two legs by the boat horrible started
after white sea and all the risk of
being honest manifestations of all
available forces
okay okay yeah I'll wait once I let me
check your waffle
I didn't better hold the 2016
I would recommend put nine people into
the outer lock bring em up from the core
burn in and have have the interlock bar
on down to 16 at and so from the outer
lock in the quiet tired moment after the
reckless of 35 hours nine men emerge
from decompression
it was not until more than 12 hours
later the Bob sheets emerged free of
pain and in good shape even the home
away from home a shell empty of men is
once more upon the surface so doable
elsewhere for another chapter in this
ongoing adventure of man within the seat
perhaps we shall see her again as Sealab
3 the commendations of today the just
pride for work well done set the stage
for the eternal question of all
adventure where do we go from here
perhaps we will routinely send men to
800 feet soon to 1700 and more feet
within some years live where to study
a new world man looks to distant planets
planted flag across the great born of
lonely space file is very doorstep an
unmeasured universe abide
