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Table of contents What's This?
  • Descriptive Summary
  • Scope and Content of Collection
  • Historical Background
  • Preferred Citation
  • Acquisition Information
  • OFF-SITE STORAGE
  • Publication Rights
  • Digital Content
  • Restrictions
  • Related Materials
  • Provenance

  • Descriptive Summary

    Contributing Institution: Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego
    9500 Gilman Drive
    La Jolla 92093-0175
    Title: SeaLab III films
    Creator: Hallanger, Lawrence W.
    Identifier/Call Number: SMC 0085
    Physical Description: 1 Linear feet (1 record carton)
    Date (inclusive): 1968-1971
    Abstract: A collection of six films documenting the U.S. Navy's SeaLab III project off the California coast.
    Languages: English .

    Scope and Content of Collection

    A collection of six films documenting the U.S. Navy's SeaLab III project off the California coast, and Navy recruitment of "aquanauts," the men who staffed the experimental underwater labs.

    Historical Background

    For information on the SeaLab Project, see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SEALAB.

    Preferred Citation

    SeaLab III films. SMC 85. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

    Acquisition Information

    Acquired 2000.

    OFF-SITE STORAGE

    COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE. ALLOW ONE WEEK FOR RETRIEVAL OF MATERIALS.

    Publication Rights

    Digital copies of this material are intended to support research, teaching, and private study. This work may be used without prior permission. The original films in this collection are held by Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego Library.

    Digital Content

    Selected materials from the collection have been digitized. Items available online by clicking on the links in the finding aid.

    Restrictions

    Original film formats are restricted. Viewing copies may be available.

    Related Materials

    Several Special Collections & Archives holdings touch on the topics of underwater manned research stations, submersible technology, and SeaLab. For best results, keyword search across our finding aid holdings on the SC&A website . The collections listed here contain related files, and films:
    Earl Murray Papers (MSS 772)
    UC San Diego. Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Communications Office records (SAC 13)

    Provenance

    These films were collected by Lawrence W. Hallanger, a scientist at the Ocean Engineering Department of the Naval Undersea Warfare Center in Pasadena, California in the 1970s.

    Subjects and Indexing Terms

    Manned undersea research stations
    Underwater exploration
    Nonfiction films
    Military oceanography
    Project Sealab
    United States. Navy
    Naval Undersea Research and Development Center
    Deep Submergence System Project (U.S.)
    Naval Civil Engineering Laboratory (Port Hueneme, Calif.)