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National Geographic : 1964 Jun
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Placing the "tent" on the ocean floor, we could create a small area where men could work dry, perhaps on a broken telephone cable or oil pipeline (page 789). I am using prototypes of both types of dwelling in this summer's Sea Diver experiments. One bothersome problem will be how to hold the gas-filled dwellings down. This can be done with weights or by fastening houses to the sea floor. We also foresee a mobile home-a self propelled vehicle that could both shelter and move a team of divers as they inspect and repair undersea installations. Present goals are set at depths of 400 to 600 feet. To the uninitiated, this may seem modest-but if we can work at these depths, we can exploit the continental shelves. They would add 10 million square miles to man's domain-an area almost as large as the entire 798
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