Aquanauts In Trouble
(N.Z. Press Assn.—Copyright) SAN DIEGO (California), October 8.
Four men are trapped 400 feet down in the Pacific Ocean tonight in the Lockheed marine laboratory’s submersible Deep Quest, a small undersea craft whose lifelines to the mother ship are said to be snagged. The men are reported to be ih no immediate danger, but the craft's life-support system can sustain life for only 48 hours. The men are in a “shirtsleeve atmosphere” and not in diving gear, according to a Lockheed spokesman, who says the Deep Quest was on a routine mission when it became snagged. The craft can descend as far as 8000 feet.
Divers are conducting rescue operations and the company is trying to obtain use of a submarine to bring up the Deep Quest.
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32114, 9 October 1969, Page 17
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