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.)