Interesting Book

[Novice]

I just finished a pretty interesting book, "SEALAB." It details the various attempts to create deep underwater habitats. Pretty interesting stuff about the advent of saturation diving and a lot of the 1960's diving technology. The early rebreathers sound like little death machines, no alarms, no sensors egggggggg. Anyway, worth a read if you see it.

[Jeff Pack]

I just finished a pretty interesting book, "SEALAB." It details the various attempts to create deep underwater habitats. Pretty interesting stuff about the advent of saturation diving and a lot of the 1960's diving technology. The early rebreathers sound like little death machines, no alarms, no sensors egggggggg. Anyway, worth a read if you see it.

Rebreathers weren't much improved in the 70's either...

[Joshua Smith]

I just finished a pretty interesting book, "SEALAB." It details the various attempts to create deep underwater habitats. Pretty interesting stuff about the advent of saturation diving and a lot of the 1960's diving technology. The early rebreathers sound like little death machines, no alarms, no sensors egggggggg. Anyway, worth a read if you see it.

Cool. I just saw the review in Diver Magazine. Definitely want to read this one.

[Furnari]

I read it- it's not too bad. There was a paragraph or two towards the end about eavesdropping on Soviet communications that sounded pretty interesting. Wish the author would have expanded that part...

[Jan K]

I read it- it's not too bad. There was a paragraph or two towards the end about eavesdropping on Soviet communications that sounded pretty interesting. Wish the author would have expanded that part...

You might be interested in reading "Blind Man's Bluff" by Sherry Sontag and Christopher Drew .

[Furnari]

Thanks Jan- it's on my wish list

[lavachickie]

Great thread. My to read list is getting some new members. Thanks!

[Joshua Smith]

I read it- it's not too bad. There was a paragraph or two towards the end about eavesdropping on Soviet communications that sounded pretty interesting. Wish the author would have expanded that part...

You might be interested in reading "Blind Man's Bluff" by Sherry Sontag and Christopher Drew .

That was a good one! Highly recommended for anyone interested in cold war submarine ops.

[sitkadiver]

I really enjoyed "Blind Man's Bluff" and was very interested in reading about the USS Halibut. What a ship that must have been to serve on.

I remember the end of 'Blind Man's Bluff' where they listed all the various colisions involving submarines. Really makes you wonder how much secret squirrel stuff was really going on. I've had the pleasure of meeting submariners on numerous occasions and they are very tight lipped about what they did and where they did it. Even the guys that served in the 50's and 60's will rarely peep a detail about what they did or their ships capabilities. Talk about loyal sailors!

You may be interested in reading a book by USN Msster Diver Robert Sheats. Dr. Sam Miller told me about his book on VSS, and I picked it up from Amazon. It's a short 92 pages and recounts his experiences as a POW after being captured on Correigidor. The Japanese were eager to get their hands on the Philipine Silver that the US dumped in the Channel and so they required the Navy Divers to dive and recover the silver pesos. It's a very interesting read. Robert Sheats was a support diver for SEALAB I and a diver for SEALAB II with astronaut Scott Carpenter.

Here's some more info:

http://navxdivingu.blogspot.com/2009/11 ... wn_10.html

[mz53480]

...You might be interested in reading "Blind Man's Bluff" by Sherry Sontag and Christopher Drew .

That was a good one! Highly recommended for anyone interested in cold war submarine ops.[/quote]

On this note...
Definately worth a talk to Ron at Hoodsport n' Dive.
Living history book.....