Entry into Inner Spare
167
16 per
cent nitrogen, 4 per cent oxygen and 80 per centhelium.
Although Soviet experimenters had a180= become interested in
experiment—s in underwater living by this time, the three groups
of Link who joined up with Ocean Systems, Cousteau, and the US.
Navy were to spearhead the invasion of the
the 1960s.’
As data and experience accumulate So the projects become
increasingly ambitious. .Sealæb 2 in 196 5 was placed at a depth of
205 feet and three teams of ten men, each of Which spent fteen ,
days underwater, took part in the experiment. The p0pular imagina—
tion was captüred by the part played in this venture by former
astronaut Scott Carpenter who, apart from staying down for thirty
consecutive days, brought about a link between the
in both Outer and inner space.» EVen while the
2 experiment
was in progress, C07'zslælf 3 began. Breakingwith'the traditional
"underwater cans’, Cousteau had devised an18—foot diameter sphere
with two storeys, the lower one ‘fordiving and: sleeping and the
upper one for eating and scientic work. The new style‘underwaterhabitat, lowered 328 feet into the Mediterranean off Cap Ferrat,
beCarhe home for…six divers ,—(including Coûst‘eau’s Son Philippe)
duringtheir stay of almost twenty—tWo days on:the sea bottom. In
the spring of 1969 came Scalab 3, set even—deeper—ôoo”feet—and
with divers from the United Kingdom, Australia. and Canada
.
taking
or Observing. By this time the Soviet experiments were
underway; tWo aquanauts had
“ten days 80 feet, down
in the Black Sealiving in…atWin—sphered uñderwater house called
«
iSch/ee-2, but
in the sumrrier.eurtailed ’a more ambitiOu$
-_
experimental programme. Then cornes =» Gori,slæÿfÎ4, With
_
ambitions objectives. . . and So progreSS cotinues:with»s‘uccessive
experiments reecting the State of the
the*teChniÇal
advances achieved
one: : Ë. ;» :…’ =Ï;Ï.j f
“**: Long stayS deepfunder“Water soon revealedfthegserioiis iiàùèïbf
f
problems » which had been sidŒsteped to
thecourse
:coventional
:
thèsé‘ïare the Sideè
«
ëe'ectsîproduced by the large percentage
helium‘
:
‘
bieathin‘g gas:
'
gabblæ:;…ängizirs ability to
a—faster than
rap1d loss of body
Î
:»Nbt all languages—are
to the Sàme…
extent. Dr
who had
spent some time
studyingireœrdirigs
'
Conshelfd1verAndre Laban,
found that
167
16 per
cent nitrogen, 4 per cent oxygen and 80 per centhelium.
Although Soviet experimenters had a180= become interested in
experiment—s in underwater living by this time, the three groups
of Link who joined up with Ocean Systems, Cousteau, and the US.
Navy were to spearhead the invasion of the
the 1960s.’
As data and experience accumulate So the projects become
increasingly ambitious. .Sealæb 2 in 196 5 was placed at a depth of
205 feet and three teams of ten men, each of Which spent fteen ,
days underwater, took part in the experiment. The p0pular imagina—
tion was captüred by the part played in this venture by former
astronaut Scott Carpenter who, apart from staying down for thirty
consecutive days, brought about a link between the
in both Outer and inner space.» EVen while the
2 experiment
was in progress, C07'zslælf 3 began. Breakingwith'the traditional
"underwater cans’, Cousteau had devised an18—foot diameter sphere
with two storeys, the lower one ‘fordiving and: sleeping and the
upper one for eating and scientic work. The new style‘underwaterhabitat, lowered 328 feet into the Mediterranean off Cap Ferrat,
beCarhe home for…six divers ,—(including Coûst‘eau’s Son Philippe)
duringtheir stay of almost twenty—tWo days on:the sea bottom. In
the spring of 1969 came Scalab 3, set even—deeper—ôoo”feet—and
with divers from the United Kingdom, Australia. and Canada
.
taking
or Observing. By this time the Soviet experiments were
underway; tWo aquanauts had
“ten days 80 feet, down
in the Black Sealiving in…atWin—sphered uñderwater house called
«
iSch/ee-2, but
in the sumrrier.eurtailed ’a more ambitiOu$
-_
experimental programme. Then cornes =» Gori,slæÿfÎ4, With
_
ambitions objectives. . . and So progreSS cotinues:with»s‘uccessive
experiments reecting the State of the
the*teChniÇal
advances achieved
one: : Ë. ;» :…’ =Ï;Ï.j f
“**: Long stayS deepfunder“Water soon revealedfthegserioiis iiàùèïbf
f
problems » which had been sidŒsteped to
thecourse
:coventional
:
thèsé‘ïare the Sideè
«
ëe'ectsîproduced by the large percentage
helium‘
:
‘
bieathin‘g gas:
'
gabblæ:;…ängizirs ability to
a—faster than
rap1d loss of body
Î
:»Nbt all languages—are
to the Sàme…
extent. Dr
who had
spent some time
studyingireœrdirigs
'
Conshelfd1verAndre Laban,
found that