SEALAB Author Ben H.
Contributor
I just met some of the good people behind ScubaBoard at DEMA 2012 in Las Vegas and was encouraged to join this lively site. My new book, "SEALAB: America's Forgotten Quest to Live and Work on the Ocean Floor," is the first-ever account of the divers and scientists behind the U.S. Navy program that pioneered saturation diving and dramatically changed the course of diving history. So with any luck I'll have something to add to the discussions here. As I was often reminded at DEMA, even many active divers know little or nothing about SEALAB, so it's always fun to spread the word about the program's achievements and legacy. . .Speaking of which, a 50th anniversary is upon us: As part of the lab experiments leading up to the first SEALAB, the first human volunteers were locked into a test chamber in Bethesda, Maryland, for a multi-day stay that began over the Thanksgiving holiday in 1962. . .