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The cab of the Mallard looks very similar to most other engines of the day. The Level glasses in the foreground, brake regulators and various valves and gauges.
A member of the Sealab II team reviews information inside the Sealab II control center.
This photograph was likely taken by Jay D. Skidmore, a Navy photographer and aquanaut on Sealab II’s Team 1.
The Sealab II project demonstrated the possibilities of saturation diving, a new approach to undersea work that kept divers underwater for days or weeks at a time. Saturation divers enjoyed unprecedented lengths of work time in exchange for only one decompression period.
In July 1964, four aquanauts spent four days living underwater in the first Sealab experiment — the first real-life test of saturation diving. The following year, the Navy drastically expanded the scale of testing with Sealab II. Beginning August 28, 1965, three teams of ten divers spent 15 days each living and working 205 feet underwater off LaJolla, California. They tested underwater tools, raised a sunken fighter jet, conducted geological studies, set up a weather station, and worked with a dolphin named Tuffy trained to carry tools and messages between the habitat and the surface.
For their efforts, the Sealab II team was awarded the Navy Unit Commendation — the first time it was given to a mixed military and civilian scientific team.
Photograph donated by John and Lynne Skidmore. In the collection of the U.S. Naval Undersea Museum, Keyport, WA. www.navalunderseamuseum.org/
USA did not sign arms treaty: The U.S. didn't join the U.K., France and other leading Western allies at the United Nations today to sign the first international treaty regulating the $85 billion-a-year global arms trade.
kiwidandy.blog.ca/2013/06/04/usa-did-not-sign-arms-treaty...
My husband said to me that these pelican's are on Cruise control. They move really fast.
Mr. Pelican cruising through Chiawana Park.
1/22/07
From here:
Fort Mackinac was built by the British in 1780. The United States gained control of the fort in 1796. In the first land engagement of the War of 1812 the British captured the fort. After the War of 1812 the fort was return to the United States. The fort was an active military base until 1895.
The West Blockhouse was built in 1798. From the West Blockhouse there is panoramic view of the channel between Mackinac Island and Round Island. The blockhouses at the fort (there are three) were designed as a defensive strong holes. They where places where defenders could view the outside of the wall and assume firing positions above the attackers. The blockhouses were designed as places of refuge. Defenders would be protected by 3-foot thick limestone wall with gun ports. The watchtower was used by sentinels to observe the channel area and the approaches to the fort. During it 150 years of service the fort never came under serious attack. The British took it in 1812 without a fight. In 1814, United States forces tried to recapture Fort Mackinac but failed. When the fort was returned to United States control after the War of 1812 it became a "desirable" garrison because there was not much need for the military in the area. Fort Mackinac is on the National Register of Historic Places.
Fort Mackinac; Mackinac Island, Michigan.
Control de la Torre de l'Enginyer, II Cursa d'Alta Muntanya de Berga, organitzada per Mountain Runners del Berguedà .