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Author : William J. Bunton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Deep diving
ISBN : UCSD:31822029905841
Author : Rick Stanton
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781405944113
THE ENTHRALLING INSIDE STORY OF THE THAI CAVE RESCUE NOW CHRONICLED IN NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC HIT DOCUMENTARY THE RESCUE WRITTEN BY THE MAN AT THE HEART OF THE MISSION 'The British divers are all heroes' Clive Cussler 'A case study in courage' Ron Howard, Oscar-winning director of Apollo 13 ________ 'They were utterly alone inside the mountain, isolated from the rest of the world. They might as well have been on another planet . . .' In July 2018, twelve boys and their football coach disappeared into Tham Luang Cave in Thailand. Trapped miles beneath the surface, not even the Thai Navy SEALs had the skills to bring them to safety. With the floodwater rising rapidly, time was running out . . . Any hope of survival rested on Rick Stanton, a retired Midlands firefighter with a living room full of homemade cave-diving equipment. As unlikely as it seemed, to those in the know, Rick and his partner, John Volanthen, were regarded as the A-team for exactly this kind of mission. The Thai Cave Rescue was the culmination of a lifelong obsession, requiring every ounce of skill and ingenuity accumulated by Rick over a four decade pursuit of the unknown. While the world held its breath, Rick, John and their assembled team raced against time in the face of near impossible odds. There was simply no precedent for what they were attempting to do . . . In Aquanaut Rick reveals the real story of the cave rescue for the first time. And of a life lived without compromise in which any mistake could have been his last. It's an edge-of-your-seat story of courage and conviction that will take you deep into the most remote and unforgiving places on the planet, told with humour, unflinching honesty, and a relentless drive for adventure. ________ 'Diver Rick Stanton relives the rescue of the century' SUNDAY TIMES 'This is their riveting, behind-the-scenes story. Captivating' SUNDAY POST THE RESCUE WATCHED BY THE WORLD 'The Thai cave rescue was phenomenally dangerous, and the work of true heroes' iNews '[The rescue] was fantastic, it really was . . .' HRH Prince William 'If it was me stuck anywhere, the one person I would want to come and rescue me is Rick Stanton' Alex Daw, Watch Commander, West Midlands Fire Service 'One of the great stories of our time' Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Oscar-winning co-director of Free Solo 'Rick Stanton is not the most domesticated of men' Sunday Telegraph
Author : Ben Hellwarth
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2012-01-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780743247450
"Sealab" tells the story of how the U.S. Navy program tried to develop the marine equivalent of the space station--and why the Navy pulled the plug. Hellwarth has interviewed surviving members of the three Sealab experiments in addition to conducting archival research to tell this first comprehensive story about the Sealab program.
Author : Helen A Siiteri
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781612513782
A pioneer in the field of deep-sea diving, George F. Bond helped develop the theory of saturation diving and the techniques and dive tables used by divers around the world. In this edited journal Bond offers a lively account of his work with the U.S. Navy’s first manned undersea habitats, the Sealab experiments of the 1960s. Dubbed “Papa Topside” by the media that followed his work with Navy aquanauts, Bond gives a colorful eyewitness account of what today are considered benchmarks in the history of diving. This is a candid, personal record of Sealabs I, II, and III, and the FISSH experiment, the finale of Bond’s career. The picture that emerges is one of a brilliant, larger-than-life figure who, though often difficult to get along with, earned the respect and affection of his peers. The book draws on the editor’s interviews with Bond’s fellow researchers and divers, editor Helen Siiteri as well as Bond’s daily logs and correspondence. Always frank and to the point, he describes his frustrations with the Navy brass, his friendly competition with Jacques Cousteau, and his spirited relationship with aquanaut/astronaut Scott Carpenter. As the only full-length book written about U.S. aquanauts and their undersea exploits, it is an important historical document. It is also an entertaining read.
Author : Charles Wesley Shilling
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781468485004
This volume follows and updates AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY ON DIVING AND SUBMARINE MEDICINE published by Gordon and Breach, Science Publishers, Inc., in 1971. The time period covered is primarily the calendar years 1970 and 1971. Also included, however, is much material from the calendar years 1968 and 1969 not in the previous publication. A brief analysis of the sources of material precedes the citations and abstracts, which comprise the main section of the volume. The bibliography is followed by a permuted subject index and an author index. Also included, following the indexes, is a micro thesaurus. Although no attempt has been made to do a critical subject analysis, such an analysis could be accomplished through selecting a particular subject, looking up the appropriate key works in the rotated index, identifying the abstracts, analyzing them, obtaining complete copy as desired, and completing the critical review. David C. Weeks, Ph.D. Director, BSCP Washington, D.C.
Author : John Piña Craven
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2002-06-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780743242257
The Cold War was the first major conflict between superpowers in which victory and defeat were unambiguously determined without the firing of a shot. Without the shield of a strong, silent deterrent or the intellectual sword of espionage beneath the sea, that war could not have been won. John P. Craven was a key figure in the Cold War beneath the sea. As chief scientist of the Navy's Special Projects Office, which supervised the Polaris missile system, then later as head of the Deep Submergence Systems Project (DSSP) and the Deep Submergence Rescue Vehicle program (DSRV), both of which engaged in a variety of clandestine undersea projects, he was intimately involved with planning and executing America's submarine-based nuclear deterrence and submarine-based espionage activities during the height of the Cold War. Craven was considered so important by the Soviets that they assigned a full-time KGB agent to spy on him. Some of Craven's highly classified activities have been mentioned in such books as Blind Man's Bluff, but now he gives us his own insights into the deadly cat-and-mouse game that U.S. and Soviet forces played deep in the world's oceans. Craven tells riveting stories about the most treacherous years of the Cold War. In 1956 Nautilus, the world's first nuclear-powered submarine and the backbone of the Polaris ballistic missile system, was only days or even hours from sinking due to structural damage of unknown origin. Craven led a team of experts to diagnose the structural flaw that could have sent the sub to the bottom of the ocean, taking the Navy's missile program with it. Craven offers insight into the rivalry between the advocates of deterrence (with whom he sided) and those military men and scientists, such as Edward Teller, who believed that the United States had to prepare to fight and win a nuclear conflict with the Soviet Union. He describes the argument that raged in the Navy over the reasons for the tragic loss of the submarine Thresher, and tells the astonishing story of the hunt for the rogue Soviet sub that became the model for The Hunt for Red October -- including the amazing discovery the Navy made when it eventually found the sunken sub. Craven takes readers inside the highly secret DSSP and DSRV programs, both of which offered crucial cover for sophisticated intelligence operations. Both programs performed important salvage operations in addition to their secret espionage activities, notably the recovery of a nuclear bomb off Palomares, Spain. He describes how the Navy's success at deep-sea recovery operations led to the takeover of the entire program by the CIA during the Nixon administration. A compelling tale of intrigue, both within our own government and between the U.S. and Soviet navies, The Silent War is an enthralling insider's account of how the submarine service kept the peace during the dangerous days of the Cold War.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1120 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IND:30000088123116
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Department of Defense
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1312 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Electronic
ISBN : MINN:31951P01215287G
Author : U.S. . HOUSE. COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS. SUBCOMMITTEE ON DEPT. OF DEFENSE.,United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Department of Defense
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1142 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:$B655773
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1310 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Electronic
ISBN : LOC:00185563297
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 976 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Finance, Public
ISBN : UCAL:B3556651
Author : United States. Congress. House Appropriations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1322 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105119541865
Author : Charles Wesley Shilling,Margaret F. Werts
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Deep diving
ISBN : 0677039107
Over 1900 references to literature published mostly from 1962 through Sept., 1969. Covers journals, reports, monographs, symposia, patents, and a few Russian newspaper items. Most of the 1129 articles were from semi-popular journals. Alphabetical arrangement by author. Permuted subject index, author index.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : San Diego (Calif.)
ISBN : STANFORD:36105022109396
Author : United States. Congress
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1240 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Law
ISBN : HARVARD:32044116493081