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I met M. Scott Carpenter during a science-fiction convention (!) but there were no photos available for his autograph. I had to order one - I think for $20! - and after a while, I finally received the photo.
I later met Carpenter again, during the release of his autobiography.
Carpenter was selected as one of the original seven Mercury Astronauts on April 9, 1959. He underwent intensive training with NASA, specializing in communication and navigation. He served as backup pilot for John Glenn during the preparation for Americas first manned orbital space flight in February 1962.
Carpenter flew the second American manned orbital flight on May 24, 1962. He piloted his Aurora 7 spacecraft through three revolutions of the earth, reaching a maximum altitude of 164 miles. The spacecraft landed in the Atlantic Ocean about 1000 miles southeast of Cape Canaveral after 4 hours and 54 minutes of flight time.
On leave of absence from NASA, Carpenter participated in the Navys Man-in the-Sea Project as an Aquanaut in the SEALAB II program off the coast of La Jolla, California, in the summer of 1965. During the 45-day experiment, Carpenter spent 30 days living and working on the ocean floor. He was team leader for two of the three ten-man teams of Navy and civilian divers who conducted deep-sea diving activities in a seafloor habitat at a depth of 205 feet.
He returned to duties with NASA as Executive Assistant to the Director of the Manned Spaceflight Center and was active in the design of the Apollo Lunar Landing Module and in underwater extravehicular activity (EVA) crew training.
Four years later, SEALAB III used a refurbished SEALAB II habitat, but was placed in water three times as deep. Five teams of nine divers were scheduled to spend 12 days each in the habitat, testing new salvage techniques and conducting oceanographic and fishery studies. Preparations for such a deep dive were extensive. In addition to many biomedical studies, work-up dives were conducted at the U.S. Navy Experimental Diving Unit at the Washington D.C. Navy Yard. These “dives” were not done in the open sea, but in a special hyperbaric chamber that could recreate the pressures at depths as great as 1,025 fsw (312 m).
SEALAB III
According to John Piña Craven, the U.S. Navy's head of the Deep Submergence Systems Project of which SEALAB was a part, SEALAB III "was plagued with strange failures at the very start of operations". On February 15, 1969, SEALAB III was lowered to 610 fsw (185 m), off San Clemente Island, California. The habitat soon began to leak and four divers were sent to repair it, but they were unsuccessful. During the second attempt, aquanaut Berry L. Cannon died. It was found that his rebreather was missing baralyme, the chemical necessary to remove carbon dioxide. Surgeon commander John Rawlins, a Royal Navy medical officer assigned to the project, also suggested that hypothermia during the dive was a contributing factor to the problem not being recognized by the diver.
According to Craven, while the other divers were undergoing the week-long decompression, repeated attempts were made to sabotage their air supply by someone aboard the command barge. Eventually, a guard was posted on the decompression chamber and the men were recovered safely. A potentially unstable suspect was identified by the staff psychiatrist but the culprit was never prosecuted. Craven suggests this may have been done to spare the Navy bad press so soon after the USS Pueblo incident. The SEALAB program came to a halt, and although the habitat was retrieved, it was eventually scrapped. Aspects of the research continued in classified military programs, but no new habitats were built.
NCEL of Port Hueneme, CA (now a part of NFESC), was responsible for the handling of several contracts involving life support systems used on SEALAB III.
The SEALAB II/III habitat is located off the Scripps pier in La Jolla, California. In 2002, a group of researchers from the High Performance Wireless Research and Education Network boarded the MV Kellie Chouest and utilized a Scorpio ROV to find the site of the SEALAB habitat. This expedition was the first return to the site since the habitat was moved.
SEALAB I was lowered off the coast of Bermuda in 1964 to a depth of 58 m (192 feet of seawater (fsw)) below the sea's surface. It was constructed from two converted floats and held in place with axles from railroad cars. The experiment involved four divers (LCDR Robert Thompson, MC; Gunners Mate First Class Lester Anderson, Chief Quartermaster Robert A. Barth, and Chief Hospital Corpsman Sanders Manning), who were to stay submerged for three weeks. The experiment was halted after 11 days due to an approaching tropical storm.
Before the SEALAB habitat could be emplaced, a number of rifle grenades had to be found and removed from the bottom around Argus Island. The grenades had been fired up into the air with the object of targeting their explosions when they returned to the water. With enough impacts the position of Argus Island could be determined to within a few feet. Unfortunately, many grenades did not detonate upon impact with the sea surface, and divers had to locate and remove them. This was a job for divers from the Navy SOFAR Station (Columbia University Geophysical Field Station), and both U.S. Navy and Air Force civilians and enlisted SCUBA divers. A platform which had been built to lower the Remote Underwater Manipulator (RUM) from a garage on Argus Island to the sea floor was also removed. SEALAB I was then placed on the nearly flat bottom on a layer of algal balls and some corals.
SEALAB I was commanded by Captain George F. Bond, also called "Poppa Topside", who was key in developing theories about saturation diving. SEALAB I proved that saturation diving in the open ocean was viable for extended periods. The experiment also offered information about habitat placement, habitat umbilicals, humidity, and helium speech descrambling.
SEALAB I is on display at the Museum of Man in the Sea, in Panama City Beach, Florida, near where it was initially tested offshore before being deployed. It is on outdoor display. Its metal hull is largely intact, though the paint is faded to a brick red.
Sealab 2021 aired on Adult Swim officially on September 2, 2001, whereas the episode 1 sneak peek aired on Cartoon Network on November 23, 2000. Sealab 2021 was a satirical parody of the original Hanna-Barbera series, Sealab 2020, and also used original stock cels from Sealab 2020.
Aquanauts prepare Dr. Robert Sonnenburg to make an excursion dive. The caption on the photo's reverse reads “Earl Murry adjusts the rebreathing bag / on Dr. Sonnenburg’s Mark VI SCUBA gear / as he prepares to leave Sealab II on an / excursion dive. Billie Coffman checks / the adjustment from the diving locker.”
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/
SEALAB II was designed, built, and outfitted at Hunter’s Point Naval Shipyard in San Francisco. The Navy lowered it to the sea floor off La Jolla, California, in the fall of 1965. It was designed to house ten men at a depth of 200 feet for 30 days. The habitat was 50’ long and 12’ in diameter, and included four separate areas: entry, laboratory, galley, and living spaces. Entry while on the ocean floor was from below the habitat, with divers emerging into the pressurized habitat through an open moon pool.
Whereas SEALAB I tested and proved the concept of saturation diving, SEALAB II provided evidence that useful work could be done. The Navy conducted physiological and psychological studies to determine man’s effectiveness underwater for an extended period. The divers evaluated the structural engineering of the habitat. They worked on a mock-up of a submarine hull and tested undersea tools; they raised an old navy jet fighter to the surface using syntactic foam; they set up a weather station, mined ore samples, experimented with plants, and studied ocean floor geology. They also experimented with a trained porpoise named Tuffy to do courier work between the habitat and the surface.
Construction of SEALAB II’s cylinder endbell used technology ahead of its time. The large dish-shaped cap was formed from a sheet of one-inch thick flat steel placed over a die. One hundred pounds of C-4 plastic explosive were distributed on the side of the blank opposite the die. The whole package—die, blank, and charge, weighing 60 tons total—was lowered 30 feet beneath the surface of San Francisco Bay where the explosive was detonated. In approximately .004 seconds the end bell was formed. Explosive metal shaping on this scale had never been attempted before.
The second half of my tiny contribution to Sealab 2022-a truly massive and awe-inspiring collaboration by Wacklug (and friends) for BrickCon Seattle 2022. It encompassed the works of 27 Kick Ass builders including Zach, Jeff Cross, Andrew Lee, and Jon Palmer. In all, the diorama filled 32 feet of tables to the brim with awesomeness!
A photographer captures a diver working around the Sealab I during the undersea laboratory's ascent from 192 feet to the surface.The photograph is dated September 1964, but this appears to be a release date as Sealab I was raised to the surface 1-2 August 1964.
In the collection of the U.S. Naval Undersea Museum, Keyport, WA. www.navalunderseamuseum.org/
I glue washed some fake gravel to the playing board for our diorama. The whole board now needs to be painted black. Then we'll work on adding the fake grass to the open pathes.
Meanwhile, Casey is still painting miniatures. When the first one gets finished I'll post a photo here.
330-PSA-128-64 (USN 1096761): Sealab I, the U.S. Navy’s underwater research laboratory, departs Panama City, Florida, Saturday morning June 6, 1964, en-route to the U.S. Naval Station, Bermuda. The lab will be aboard a research support vessel towed by USS Salinan (ATF-161). The trip will take about one week. Tests lasting three weeks are scheduled to being in 192 feet of water southwest of Bermuda, July 6. Five Navy Men, including Astronaut Scott Carpenter, will live and work in Sealab I during the tests. Shown, (left to right): Gunner’s Mate First Class Lester E. Anderson, USN; Lieutenant Robert E. Thompson, MC, USN; Astronaut M. Scott Carpenter, Chief Hospital Corpsman Sanders W. Manning, USN; Chief Quartermaster Robert A. Barth, USN. Photograph released May 14, 1964. (2015/11/03).
The Sealab III habitat in the water and attached by umbilical lines to the test range support ship USS Elk River (IX 501), prior to being lowered to the ocean floor for a test, San Clemente Island, California, December 1968.
In the collection of the U.S. Naval Undersea Museum, Keyport, WA. www.navalunderseamuseum.org/
I'm about to change and rearrange all of this, all of this room actually. But all of the little shelves and stuff. I think I'm gonna let the homies back into all the slots, and pull the designer vinyl out and set it up some place else ;)
Replica of Sealab 3, which was Cameron's first bathysphere he built using his Erector Set, a pickle jar, & a tin can. He tested in Chippawa Creek with a mouse a board. The mouse survived.
Courtesy of James Cameron.
330-PSA-128-64 (USN 1096760): Sealab I, the U.S. Navy’s underwater research laboratory, departs Panama City, Florida, Saturday morning June 6, 1964, en-route to the U.S. Naval Station, Bermuda. The lab will be aboard a research support vessel towed by USS Salinan (ATF-161). The trip will take about one week. Tests lasting three weeks are scheduled to being in 192 feet of water southwest of Bermuda, July 6. Five Navy Men, including Astronaut Scott Carpenter, will live and work in Sealab I during the tests. Shown: Sealab I, the Navy’s 40-foot undersea laboratory. Photograph released May 14, 1964. (2015/11/03).
Possible moonpool module build. Final would be very yellow, tiled, smooth. Gaps filled. Industrial. This is lifted from dave eaton's dodecahedron model.
Will have 3 flared out entrances to moonpool and a connection to the standardized tubes that will hook the 3 modules to the seatower hub.
I spent most of today unpacking and fitting the IKEA order for my new digs, so I only managed a couple of hours on the Falcon. But hey! Workshop is looking snazzy eh? Certainly beats my subterranean bedroom.
Anyhow, I decided to make these Sealab parts individually as I haven't got the patience to mould and cast sets seeing as how easy they are to make. The one thing I'm really struggling to come to terms with is the issue of scalability....despite operating on the finest level I've yet worked at, everything still seems to chunky, too thick....It's an understandable byproduct of imitating a model which is over 5" long into a model just over a quarter the size, but it's still bugging me.
A years' difference eh?
This particular mistake surprisingly doesn't annoy me, but confuses me instead. As you can see here on the portside the 8-rad 'aileron base' is excellently aligned with the wheel component, the starboard side is totally skew-whiff. I've measured up everything and I still can't figure out where I went wrong...it's a pity that I've become more lackadaisical (even sloppy) with my work in comparison to earlier work on this build. I'll be kicking myself for it later no doubt
330-PSA-23-65 (USN 1108798): Project Sealab II is scheduled for late next summer when an underwater residence will be established 250 feet beneath the Pacific, one mile off La Jolla, California. Two ten-man diving teams will live in the undersea laboratory for periods of 15 to 30 days. Sealab II, shown here in an artist’s conception, will be a cylindrical structure 50 by 12 feet, designed to provide easy access to the sea. Atmospheric pressure within the lab will be 100 pounds per square inch, the same pressure as that of the sea at 250 feet. As in Sealab I, conducted 30 miles off Bermuda last July, the major objective of Sealab II will be to determine how much useful work can be accomplished by divers in an ocean environment at great depths. The divers will breathe a specially formulated gas mixture consisting of Helium, Oxygen and Nitrogen, with Helium the major component. Sealab II will be self-sufficient with respect to food, water, and breathing the gas mixture for at least six weeks. Photograph released February 5, 1965. (2015/11/10).
I spent most of today unpacking and fitting the IKEA order for my new digs, so I only managed a couple of hours on the Falcon. But hey! Workshop is looking snazzy eh? Certainly beats my subterranean bedroom.
Anyhow, I decided to make these Sealab parts individually as I haven't got the patience to mould and cast sets seeing as how easy they are to make. The one thing I'm really struggling to come to terms with is the issue of scalability....despite operating on the finest level I've yet worked at, everything still seems to chunky, too thick....It's an understandable byproduct of imitating a model which is over 5" long into a model just over a quarter the size, but it's still bugging me.
A years' difference eh?
This particular mistake surprisingly doesn't annoy me, but confuses me instead. As you can see here on the portside the 8-rad 'aileron base' is excellently aligned with the wheel component, the starboard side is totally skew-whiff. I've measured up everything and I still can't figure out where I went wrong...it's a pity that I've become more lackadaisical (even sloppy) with my work in comparison to earlier work on this build. I'll be kicking myself for it later no doubt
Jesse and Ann came to Florida for a week and it was awesome!
Lighting: 2 SB900's, 1 on each side. One shot through umbrella and one shot through a small soft-box. Triggered by D700 Commander Mode.
I spent most of today unpacking and fitting the IKEA order for my new digs, so I only managed a couple of hours on the Falcon. But hey! Workshop is looking snazzy eh? Certainly beats my subterranean bedroom.
Anyhow, I decided to make these Sealab parts individually as I haven't got the patience to mould and cast sets seeing as how easy they are to make. The one thing I'm really struggling to come to terms with is the issue of scalability....despite operating on the finest level I've yet worked at, everything still seems to chunky, too thick....It's an understandable byproduct of imitating a model which is over 5" long into a model just over a quarter the size, but it's still bugging me.
A years' difference eh?
This particular mistake surprisingly doesn't annoy me, but confuses me instead. As you can see here on the portside the 8-rad 'aileron base' is excellently aligned with the wheel component, the starboard side is totally skew-whiff. I've measured up everything and I still can't figure out where I went wrong...it's a pity that I've become more lackadaisical (even sloppy) with my work in comparison to earlier work on this build. I'll be kicking myself for it later no doubt
I spent most of today unpacking and fitting the IKEA order for my new digs, so I only managed a couple of hours on the Falcon. But hey! Workshop is looking snazzy eh? Certainly beats my subterranean bedroom.
Anyhow, I decided to make these Sealab parts individually as I haven't got the patience to mould and cast sets seeing as how easy they are to make. The one thing I'm really struggling to come to terms with is the issue of scalability....despite operating on the finest level I've yet worked at, everything still seems to chunky, too thick....It's an understandable byproduct of imitating a model which is over 5" long into a model just over a quarter the size, but it's still bugging me.
A years' difference eh?
This particular mistake surprisingly doesn't annoy me, but confuses me instead. As you can see here on the portside the 8-rad 'aileron base' is excellently aligned with the wheel component, the starboard side is totally skew-whiff. I've measured up everything and I still can't figure out where I went wrong...it's a pity that I've become more lackadaisical (even sloppy) with my work in comparison to earlier work on this build. I'll be kicking myself for it later no doubt
Photograph courtesy of Graeme Lovell.
Coming on to the UK Register in 1973 this aircraft has had the following owners/operators - MacKenzie Hill, Wimpey Sealabs, Ferranti Helicopters, British Caledonian Helicopters, Gleneagles Helicopters and moving to Bond Helicopters in April 1989. Its first role with this company was a stand-in First Air Ambulance and later painted in Trinity House Lighthouse Service red/grey livery for the early 1990s. Seen here hangared at Aberdeen not long before its sale to South Africa as ZS RKL during 1998.
I spent most of today unpacking and fitting the IKEA order for my new digs, so I only managed a couple of hours on the Falcon. But hey! Workshop is looking snazzy eh? Certainly beats my subterranean bedroom.
Anyhow, I decided to make these Sealab parts individually as I haven't got the patience to mould and cast sets seeing as how easy they are to make. The one thing I'm really struggling to come to terms with is the issue of scalability....despite operating on the finest level I've yet worked at, everything still seems to chunky, too thick....It's an understandable byproduct of imitating a model which is over 5" long into a model just over a quarter the size, but it's still bugging me.
A years' difference eh?
This particular mistake surprisingly doesn't annoy me, but confuses me instead. As you can see here on the portside the 8-rad 'aileron base' is excellently aligned with the wheel component, the starboard side is totally skew-whiff. I've measured up everything and I still can't figure out where I went wrong...it's a pity that I've become more lackadaisical (even sloppy) with my work in comparison to earlier work on this build. I'll be kicking myself for it later no doubt
I spent most of today unpacking and fitting the IKEA order for my new digs, so I only managed a couple of hours on the Falcon. But hey! Workshop is looking snazzy eh? Certainly beats my subterranean bedroom.
Anyhow, I decided to make these Sealab parts individually as I haven't got the patience to mould and cast sets seeing as how easy they are to make. The one thing I'm really struggling to come to terms with is the issue of scalability....despite operating on the finest level I've yet worked at, everything still seems to chunky, too thick....It's an understandable byproduct of imitating a model which is over 5" long into a model just over a quarter the size, but it's still bugging me.
A years' difference eh?
This particular mistake surprisingly doesn't annoy me, but confuses me instead. As you can see here on the portside the 8-rad 'aileron base' is excellently aligned with the wheel component, the starboard side is totally skew-whiff. I've measured up everything and I still can't figure out where I went wrong...it's a pity that I've become more lackadaisical (even sloppy) with my work in comparison to earlier work on this build. I'll be kicking myself for it later no doubt
Copyright John Perlock 2009.
These were part a set of paintings for the United States Navy Experimental Diving Unit. These historic images along with a set of contemporary images have been put together in an ad showing the past, present and future of the NAVY.
If you see these images anywhere please let me know because I never got to see the finished ad.
I spent most of today unpacking and fitting the IKEA order for my new digs, so I only managed a couple of hours on the Falcon. But hey! Workshop is looking snazzy eh? Certainly beats my subterranean bedroom.
Anyhow, I decided to make these Sealab parts individually as I haven't got the patience to mould and cast sets seeing as how easy they are to make. The one thing I'm really struggling to come to terms with is the issue of scalability....despite operating on the finest level I've yet worked at, everything still seems to chunky, too thick....It's an understandable byproduct of imitating a model which is over 5" long into a model just over a quarter the size, but it's still bugging me.
A years' difference eh?
This particular mistake surprisingly doesn't annoy me, but confuses me instead. As you can see here on the portside the 8-rad 'aileron base' is excellently aligned with the wheel component, the starboard side is totally skew-whiff. I've measured up everything and I still can't figure out where I went wrong...it's a pity that I've become more lackadaisical (even sloppy) with my work in comparison to earlier work on this build. I'll be kicking myself for it later no doubt
I spent most of today unpacking and fitting the IKEA order for my new digs, so I only managed a couple of hours on the Falcon. But hey! Workshop is looking snazzy eh? Certainly beats my subterranean bedroom.
Anyhow, I decided to make these Sealab parts individually as I haven't got the patience to mould and cast sets seeing as how easy they are to make. The one thing I'm really struggling to come to terms with is the issue of scalability....despite operating on the finest level I've yet worked at, everything still seems to chunky, too thick....It's an understandable byproduct of imitating a model which is over 5" long into a model just over a quarter the size, but it's still bugging me.
A years' difference eh?
This particular mistake surprisingly doesn't annoy me, but confuses me instead. As you can see here on the portside the 8-rad 'aileron base' is excellently aligned with the wheel component, the starboard side is totally skew-whiff. I've measured up everything and I still can't figure out where I went wrong...it's a pity that I've become more lackadaisical (even sloppy) with my work in comparison to earlier work on this build. I'll be kicking myself for it later no doubt
I spent most of today unpacking and fitting the IKEA order for my new digs, so I only managed a couple of hours on the Falcon. But hey! Workshop is looking snazzy eh? Certainly beats my subterranean bedroom.
Anyhow, I decided to make these Sealab parts individually as I haven't got the patience to mould and cast sets seeing as how easy they are to make. The one thing I'm really struggling to come to terms with is the issue of scalability....despite operating on the finest level I've yet worked at, everything still seems to chunky, too thick....It's an understandable byproduct of imitating a model which is over 5" long into a model just over a quarter the size, but it's still bugging me.
A years' difference eh?
This particular mistake surprisingly doesn't annoy me, but confuses me instead. As you can see here on the portside the 8-rad 'aileron base' is excellently aligned with the wheel component, the starboard side is totally skew-whiff. I've measured up everything and I still can't figure out where I went wrong...it's a pity that I've become more lackadaisical (even sloppy) with my work in comparison to earlier work on this build. I'll be kicking myself for it later no doubt
330-PSA-168-64 (USN 1105343): U.S. Naval Station, Bermuda, July 23, 1964. The U.S. Navy’s underwater laboratory SEALAB I at a depth of 192’, 30 miles SW of Bermuda. The submersible decompression chamber can be seen in the background to the left. (2015/11/03).
I spent most of today unpacking and fitting the IKEA order for my new digs, so I only managed a couple of hours on the Falcon. But hey! Workshop is looking snazzy eh? Certainly beats my subterranean bedroom.
Anyhow, I decided to make these Sealab parts individually as I haven't got the patience to mould and cast sets seeing as how easy they are to make. The one thing I'm really struggling to come to terms with is the issue of scalability....despite operating on the finest level I've yet worked at, everything still seems to chunky, too thick....It's an understandable byproduct of imitating a model which is over 5" long into a model just over a quarter the size, but it's still bugging me.
A years' difference eh?
This particular mistake surprisingly doesn't annoy me, but confuses me instead. As you can see here on the portside the 8-rad 'aileron base' is excellently aligned with the wheel component, the starboard side is totally skew-whiff. I've measured up everything and I still can't figure out where I went wrong...it's a pity that I've become more lackadaisical (even sloppy) with my work in comparison to earlier work on this build. I'll be kicking myself for it later no doubt