Thought this SeaLab article was interesting...

[TheFrood]

Never realized that anything like this had been done. I always wondered
why I never heard stories about trying to build underwater habitats... Guess
it's just a lot more complicated to deal with higher pressure than lower pressure.

https://www.npr.org/2025/01/28/g-s1-44785/navy-experimental-underwater-habitat

 

[tbae]

Thanks for sharing this article. I wonder if the experiment would be successful with current knowledge and technology at our disposal.

 

[moonshine]

Thanks.
The article fits right in with what was popular for me as a kid.
Lloyd Bridges reruns, Marine Boy cartoons and the Diver Dan show were all popular. And Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea. A YouTube search will dredge them all up (pun intended).
I spent a lot of time at Marine Land in Palos Verdes. For a handful of change, a wax vacuum machine would create a replica of one of the sea creatures. Amazingly enough, those fragile, vintage items can also be found on the internet marketplace.
Space was a huge draw, but inner space was more readily available.
Once Scott Carpenter took his turn in space, I'm glad he found another out

 

[TheFrood]

I really liked the first season of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SeaQuest_DSV

Was a great near-future type sci-fi show, but then they brought aliens into it,
time travel, other space-opera type sci-fi concepts the whole show got kind of
meh...

 

[moonshine]

I really liked the first season of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SeaQuest_DSV

Was a great near-future type sci-fi show, but then they brought aliens into it,
time travel, other space-opera type sci-fi concepts the whole show got kind of
meh...

SeaQuest showed plenty of promise, but when it didn't deliver as planned, the support fell away pretty quickly.
Ironically, it made it three seasons, like Star Trek.
In an alternate universe, it might've been picked out of syndication and turned into movies and adapted into a blockbuster hit by J.J. Abrams.
When Jonathan Brandis died tragically, my daughter mourned for the first time for a non-family member.