LIVING IN THE SEA
Experiment By Frenchmen (NJt.P.A .-Reuter—Copyright) MARSEILLES. Sept. 15 France's two “fish men” today began their first full day working and living 30ft under the Mediterranean. The men. Albert Falco and Claude Wesly. yesterday dived to Diogenes—a cylinder 16ft long by Bft wide, their home for the next week. They spent, last night in soft beds in their "house” which is equipped with cooking and heating apparatus television and telephone During the seven-day experiment they will leave Diogenes frequently to carry out research in the sea. Dressed in diving suits, they can enter and leave by an airlocked chimney-shaped “entrance hall.” Organisers believe the results will be of direct practical value in underwater construction and in evolving underwater atomic shelters
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29931, 19 September 1962, Page 12
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