Sep 19, 2016 | Featured Artifacts
The Sealab undersea habitats were groundbreaking experiments conducted by the Navy between 1964 and 1969. Navy scientist Dr. George F. Bond developed and led the Sealab projects to test and demonstrate the concept of saturation diving. Bond’s experiments with...
Sep 19, 2016 | Featured Artifacts
The Navy One-Man One-Atmosphere Diving System (NOMOADS) was an atmospheric diving suit modified and tested by the U.S. Navy in the 1980s and early 1990s. NOMOADS was a modification of the commercial atmospheric diving system JIM. The JIM suit was developed in the...
Jul 13, 2016 | Featured Artifacts
This model kit, containing parts to build a model of ballistic missile submarine USS Ethan Allen (SSBN 608), was released in the early 1960s around the time of Ethan Allen’s August 1961 commissioning. Ethan Allen was the sixth ballistic missile submarine (SSBN)...
Apr 21, 2016 | Featured Artifacts
Remotely operated vehicle Deep Drone was a Navy-built ROV used for deep ocean salvage and emergency rescue missions in the 1970s and 1980s. It was the first in a series of three Deep Drone vehicles. Today the Navy operates the third-generation Deep Drone 8000....
Apr 21, 2016 | Featured Artifacts
CURV III is the fourth in a family of cable-controlled underwater recovery vehicles (CURV) developed and used by the U.S. Navy. The Naval Undersea Research and Development Center (NUC) (today Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Pacific) designed the first CURV —...
Apr 1, 2016 | Events, Featured Artifacts
On the morning of January 17, 1966, an American B-52 bomber flew over southeast Spain carrying four hydrogen bombs. The aircraft was one of several patrolling European skies with nuclear payloads, ready to retaliate should Cold War tensions escalate. At 10:20 AM, as...
