Included in your admission: access to behind the scenes areas, standards based activities in Aquanaut Adventure: A Discovery Zone, and admission to all Georgia Aquarium galleries and presentations on a first come, first served basis. (georgiaaquarium.org)
SEALAB by Ben Hellwarth In the 1960s, as the underwater exploits of Jacques Cousteau dazzled the world, U.S. Navy aquanauts lived for weeks in pressurized capsules hundreds of feet under the sea — test runs, Navy researchers hoped, for long - term human habitats on the ocean floor. (discovermagazine.com)
It was followed a few years later by the 60 - foot - long, cylindrical Sealab III, which was designed so a dozen aquanauts at a time could conduct experiments at a depth of 600 feet, a giant leap out onto the continental shelf. (discovermagazine.com)