SeaLab III was a 1968 Navy experiment in which 5 diving teams of 8 aquanauts lived for a 12-day period in a sea-floor habitat placed at a depth of 620 feet off San Clemente Island, #California. This experiment was also called the Deep Submergence Systems Project. This film describes the SeaLab III project. It includes footage of the SeaLab habitat being lifted from the deck of a ship and deployed at sea. It shows divers working underwater during the deployment of the habitat. It includes footage of SeaLab III aquanauts working with navy-trained porpoises. The film ends with a statement by Captain William Nicholson, Project Manager of the Deep Submergence Systems Project. <br /><br />Collection - Lawrence W. Hallanger Films, 1968-1971 <br />Digitized by the California Audiovisual Preservation Project (CAVPP). <br />Date - 1971 <br />Author - U.S Navy/Robert H White <br />www.eonsofawe.com
