Info The Last of the earth's frontiers

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Document Name:

‘The Last of the earth’s frontiers’:​

Sealab, the Aquanaut, and the US Navy’s battle against the sub-marine​

Author:

Rachael Squire​

Department of Geography​

Royal Holloway, University of London​

Abstract

From 1957-1969, at the height of the Cold War, the US Navy in conjunction with the Office of Naval Research conducted a series of pioneering experiments designed to enable ‘man’ to live and work for extended periods of time beneath the sea. Led by Capt. Dr George Bond, the projects (Project Genesis, Sealab I, Sealab II, and Sealab III) involved sending teams of divers, or ‘aquanauts’ as they were known, to live in hyperbaric chambers and undersea habitats positioned at various depths for days and weeks at a time. Whilst the gaze of publics and scholars were often pointed to Outer Space, we see here an extraordinary demonstration of a Cold War belief that humans should not be constrained by their terrestrial roots.​

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Filename: The Last of the earth's frontiers.pdf​

File Format: Adobe Acrobat​

Size: 7.3 MB​

Pages: 340​

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