Sentences with phrase «aquanauts at»

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.

It could house up to five aquanauts at a time for two weeks, at depths ranging from 50 to 106 feet.

The group hopes to raise the $ 35 million it will need to create the habitat, a boxy structure that would accommodate 25 aquanauts at depths up to 60 feet.

Not exact matches

Instead of weightlessness, the aquanaut would have to endure, among other things, artificial atmospheres with gaseous mixtures different from what we breathe on land, maintained at significantly higher pressures than those at sea level to match the water pressure at depth.

This time Koblick got his wish: a shot at being a bona fide aquanaut who lived under the sea.

That meant a hatch in the floor could remain open without the sea rushing in, and the aquanauts living inside had ready access to the sea outside at any time of day or night.

The coupe is smooth and easy to drive — once you get past the initial anxiety of placing yourself inside what feels like an aquanaut dive helmet at a cheap Cancun resort.