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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!
330-PSA-168-64-2: U.S. Naval Station, Bermuda, July 18, 1964. Aquanaut Robert A. Barth securing the entry hatch which leads to the oxygen-helium atmosphere living quarters of the Sealab just prior to the lowering operation which began on July 18, 1964, off the Bermuda coast. (2015/11/03).
428-GX-USN 1135326: U.S. Naval Missile Center, Point Mugu, California, in a humorous picture, aquanaut-diver Machinist’s Mate Second Class Keith Moore models what the well-equipped aquanaut may wear prior to leaving Sealab III. Photographed JOC Ernie Filtz, July 11, 1968. U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. (2016/05/10).
An inflatable dolphin rides atop the Dauphin Island Sea Lab’s truck in the island’s first People’s Parade during Mardi Gras, Feb. 4, 2017, in Dauphin Island, Alabama. French settlers held the first Mardi Gras in 1703, making Mobile's celebration the oldest Mardi Gras in the United States. The first parade of the season is traditionally held on Dauphin Island and draws thousands. (Photo by Carmen K. Sisson/Cloudybright)
summer of 1987
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BACKGROUND:
1982 - The Institute of Diving opens the "International Diving Museum" (now the "Museum of Man in the Sea") in Panama City, Florida. The museum's collection will become one of the most comprehensive in the world. It includes the U. S. Navy's Sealab I and the Deep Dive System Mark 1. The museum also houses diving equipment from England, France, Germany, and Japan, as well as a research library of rare books, video tapes, photographs, and films.
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This will donate parts to the Studio Scale Sandcrawler, and a whole host of other models. Probably the hardest donor model to get, these days.
early top-view sketch. the tower and hardware on the left and the environment on the right.
This is a good top-down shot of the sea-floor modules. The bigger circles radiating out from the center. I love the idea of us each making one of these. They can have a similar color scheme and design, but reflect the style of each builder...sort of a blatant nod to the 3-way (sexy!) collaboration of the model.
Is this a lame idea? If the 2 of you think it would be more cooler to have all 3 seafloor modules look exactly alike please let me know.
The 3 smaller, inner circles represent minor pods or modules or whatever that are attached like half way up the tower. We can do the same thing with these if you want.
I plan on tackling the seafloor central hub and the central section below the waterline on my own, but the above-water section is totally up for grabs. We could do it all together, decide on a single look or whatever. It could be gritty and industrial like a real oil platform or roundish like the space needle's top. Maybe both? I'm very open to ideas.
The back cover page of a booklet marking the christening of the Sealab II habitat on July 23, 1965 at Long Beach Naval Shipyard.
In the collection of the U.S. Naval Undersea Museum, Keyport, WA. www.navalunderseamuseum.org/
Fish species at the Estuarium represent those found in the northern Gulf of Mexico, Mobile Bay, Mobile Tensaw River Delta, and the Barrier Islands.
Mermaid in the Night
By Jimmy Buffett
I went out fishing on a sandy beach
Cast my line out as far as it would reach
Looking for something for the frying pan I kick back with a beer in my hand
I must've got a big one cause it's bending my pole
I'm having to fight just to keep my hold
It could be a whale (oh) God only knows
Whatever it is it's not wearing any clothes
[Chorus:]
She's larger than life
Made from holy water
She's covered in green
She's got little scales upon her
She's larger than life
She's a mermaid in the night
She's got a set of gills, like no fish I've ever seen
Long blonde hair and a tail in between
I'm in love ith a creature from the sea
And she's bringin' out the crustacean in me
Her voice is a temptation it's a siren song
When we kiss there could be no wrong
I ask her to marry me, to be my wife
And we could do the backstroke for the rest of our lives
[Chorus]
She's larger than life
Made from holy water
She's covered in green
She's got little scales upon her
She's larger than life
She's a mermaid in the night
I don't know whats going on here, I just came into the room and found this... I don't know what's going on behind these closed doors, I just happened to catch them this time...
I know that it's time for 'white debbie' to have babies, becauze of her internal clock going off or something... hmm... obviously she's not too concerned who gives them to her... that's cool X) I guess...
We have a conference call with Cartoon Network/Adult Swim about our Sealab 2021 game. You can tell it's an office and not an apartment because of the Flashbang Studios, LLC sign.
An aquanaut swims outside the Sealab II habitat.
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/
A fish swims outside a Sealab II hatch.
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/
An insignia for Sealab II noting the involvement of the U.S. Naval Ordnance Test Station, which provided all surface operational support for the project.
In the collection of the U.S. Naval Undersea Museum, Keyport, WA. www.navalunderseamuseum.org/
Torpedoman's Mate First Class Billie Coffman, a Sealab II aquanaut, places a screen in a canister of lithium hydroxide, September 7, 1965. The chemical was used to scrub (remove) carbon dioxide from inside the underwater habitat. Photo by Chief Phographer's Mate J.D. Skidmore.
In the collection of the U.S. Naval Undersea Museum, Keyport, WA. www.navalunderseamuseum.org/
This is the Manta sub, which I built for the SeaLab collab organized by WackLUG for BrickCon 2022. I tried to up my game with lighting on this one, so make sure to watch the video through to when the lights turn out.
The commemorative envelope (cachet) from a piece of "Dolphin Mail" — letters carried between the surface and Sealab II by a trained dolphin named Tuffy.
In the collection of the U.S. Naval Undersea Museum, Keyport, WA. www.navalunderseamuseum.org/
A press pass for Sealab II.
In the collection of the U.S. Naval Undersea Museum, Keyport, WA. www.navalunderseamuseum.org/
Aquanauts Billie Coffman, Fred Johler, and Scott Carpenter review the Sealab II diving schedule. The caption on the photo's reverse reads “Oct. 6, 1965 / Cdr. M. Scott Carpenter, USN (NASA), talks over diving schedule with Senior Chief Engineman Fred Johler, center, and Billie Coffman, Torpedoman’s Mate First Class, left. / Inside SeaLab II photo by / J.D. Skidmore, PHC."
This photograph was 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/
A fish swims outside a Sealab II hatch.
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/