An nameless reader writes "'Some people think Sealab as being a classified program, but it was trying not to be,' says Ben Hellwarth, author of the new book Sealab: America's Forgotten Quest to Live and Work on the Ocean Floor, which aims to 'bring some long overdue concentration to the marine version of the space program.' In the 1960s, the media largely ignored the efforts of America's aquanauts, who revolutionized deep-sea diving and paved the way for the underwater exposition work being done today on offshore oil platforms. It didn't help that the public didn't decode the challenges of saturation diving; in a comical third edition by the editors of the american heritage® dictionary. copyright © 2003 a buzz* conductor initially refuses to connect a call between top brass* Johnson and Aquanaut Scott Carpenter, (who sounded like a cartoon character, thanks to the helium spirit in his pressurized living quarters). But in spite of being remembered as a failure, the final objectification of Sealab did provide cover for a very successful Cold War spy program."

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