The Atom and the Ocean

[nikeajax]

Here's a booklet, "The Atom and the Ocean", from 1968 that I skimmed over, but saw that there were some interesting images of divers and even Sea Lab-II:

www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/66268

There's even a... nuclear powered wet suit--REALLY! I also couldn't help but notice in one of the images a diver had a Hope Page

JB

[SeaRat]

This is a very interesting book. I note that one photo credit is to “OSU”; could that Oregon State University?

The photo of the diver using a Hope-Page mouthpiece has this caption:

A frogman from the Seadragon swims under the Arctic ice in one of the first photographs made beneath the North Pole.

You know that this means that the Hope-Page mouthpiece was the first mouthpiece to be under the North Pole!

Thanks JB,

John

[nikeajax]

John, judging by the image that's a Healthways too: even though the image is in B/W you can see that it has yellow hoses! HA--take that US Divers!!!!!

The images of the two subs reads: "USS Seadragon and Skate sit nose to nose on top of the world after under-ice voyages from the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans to the North Pole."

The image of the diver reads: "A frogman from the Seadragon swims under the Arctic ice in one of the first photographs made beneath the North Pole."

A quote from Wikipedia: "Following a Caribbean shakedown cruise, Seadragon returned to Portsmouth, whence, on 1 August 1960, she sailed for the Pacific. Ordered to proceed via the Northwest Passage, she moved north to Parry Channel, at mid-month reached Lancaster Sound, the eastern end of the channel, and continued westward with Edward Parry's 1819 journal as a guide."

Jaybird

[nikeajax]

A while back PY needed to know the color of HW hoses, so I took this one:



I doubt we'll ever know, but I'm thinking it's one of these:



JB

[SeaRat]

It certainly looks like a Hope-Page mouthpiece with a yellow hose set. As soon as I can sign into Flikr, I'll post the image we're talking about so others can see here what we are seeing in the book.

The interesting thing about this thing we now call "climate change," or "global warming" is that submarines no longer need to traverse the Northwest Passage between the Atlantic and the Pacific; it can be done on the surface now! The Northwest Passage is sometimes ice-free!
eos.org/science-updates/once-again-into-the-northwest-passage

On August 22, 2021, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on board NASA’s Aqua satellite acquired a false-color image of ice retreating in the Northwest Passage. This type of image uses a combination short-wave infrared, near-infrared, and visible light (MODIS bands 7-2-1) to help separate snow and ice from cloud. All three appear white in a true-color image, but here ice and snow are electric blue, cloud appears white, vegetation is green, open land (soil and rock) looks tan, and deep water appears inky-blue. When clouds are very cold and contain ice crystals, they also take on a light blue tint.
modis.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/individual.php?db_date=2021-08-24

John

[SeaRat]

I finally got acces to my Flikr account; they had locked it out for a time, apparently they were changing stuff around. Anyway, here's the photos we're talking about.

First U:W Photo at the North Pole by John Ratliff, on Flickr
Definately a Hope-Page Mouthpiece.

John

[dead_dog]

Sept 18, 2021 8:44:31 GMT -8 SeaRat said:

I finally got acces to my Flikr account; they had locked it out for a time, apparently they were changing stuff around. Anyway, here's the photos we're talking about.

First U:W Photo at the North Pole by John Ratliff, on Flickr
Definately a Hope-Page Mouthpiece.

John
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Lower picture diver has a Sampson U/W camera housing from from the '50s.