Oceanology: Journey to Inner Space

From under the churning Pacific last week came the sound of a human voice: "Greetings, earth people." Far from a Jules Verne fantasy, it was the breezy salutation of one of the men of Sealab II, the U.S.'s capsule in inner space 205 ft. down on the ocean floor, one-half mile off the coast near La Jolla, Calif. The ten aquanauts on board, led there two weeks ago by Astronaut-turned-Aquanaut Scott Carpenter, were winding up the first part of a 45-day adventure that aims to discover man's capacity to live comfortably and work...

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