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SeaLab III films

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FILMS

Box 1, Folder 1

BTV (Buoyant Transport Vehicle) footage ca. 1968

Buoyant Transport Vehicle footage

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General note

1 film reel (8 min., 45 sec.) ; silent, color. Preservation surrogate is time-reversed (backwards). The BTV was a vehicle designed for use in SeaLab III.

Box 1, Folder 2

DEEPSTAR camera observes SeaLab III DIVERCON anchor placement ca. 1968

DEEPSTAR camera observes SeaLab III DIVERCON anchor placement

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General note

1 film reel (18 min., 3 sec.) ; silent, color. This film was made using the DEEPSTAR submersible on a dive at the SeaLab III site to observe the DIVERCON 1 underwater construction experiment.

Box 1, Folder 3

Buoyancy Transport Vehicle: The undersea forklift 1968

Buoyancy Transport Vehicle: The undersea forklift

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General note

1 film reel (10 min., 7 sec.) ; sound, color. Produced by Naval Civil Engineering Laboratory, Port Hueneme, California.

Box 1, Folder 4

100 fathoms deep: SeaLab III ca. 1971

100 fathoms deep: SeaLab III

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General note

1 film reel (30 min., 15 sec.) ; sound, color. Presented by the Deep Submergence Systems Project of the US Navy; produced by SeaLab III Command Information Bureau. Directed by Robert H. White. Shows footage of the SeaLab III habitat, divers, aquanauts, and ends with a statement by the program manager, Captain William Nicholson.

Box 1, Folder 5

DIVERCON 1: NAVFAC/NCEL underwater construction experiment 1968

DIVERCON 1: NAVFAC/NCEL underwater construction experiment

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General note

1 film reel (15 min., 7 sec.) ; sound, color. US Navy technical film report on SeaLab III, produced by Naval Civil Engineering Laboratory, Port Hueneme, California.

Box 1, Folder 6

The Aquanauts 1971

The aquanauts

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General note

1 film reel (15 min., 44 sec.) ; sound, color. Produced by Naval Undersea R&D Center for the Deep Submergence Systems Project. Reviews process of selection and training of Navy aquanauts for SeaLab experiments. Significant red-shifting, poor condition.

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