Saturday, February 15, 2025

The SEALAB III Issue To Be Available At SEALAB 60 Anniversary

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Issue 119 of the Journal of Diving History, featuring the famous SEALAB III, The Divers Story, will be available at the SEALAB 60th Anniversary celebration.

The event will take place on July 19-21, 2024, at the Man in the Sea Museum in Panama City Beach, FL. During the event, copies of the publication will be available.

According to Leslie Leaney, the journal’s publisher:

“In over thirty years of publishing the Journal, this one particular story, told by the SEALAB III Aquanauts to author Kevin Hardy, may be the greatest service HDS has yet done for the nation’s diving community. It clearly presents a powerful alternative to the USN Board of Inquiry conclusions. Kevin and I have been discussing his research at industry shows and in bars for over a decade, and we have now finally got it into print while about a quarter of the participants are still alive. Over the decades since SEALAB III was cancelled Kevin earned the Aquanauts trust and kept their faith. The result of that is this full story which has never been printed before. The Aquanauts have trusted Kevin, and he has delivered for them.”

While the author, Kevin Hardy, added:

“The Aquanauts were forced to keep their story silent for decades…but in the fullness of time, other primary sources came to light including dive logs, personal journals, Board of Inquiry testimony, photographs, and time-keyed logs from the topside Master Control room. Reports in magazines and newspapers of the day, plus first-person published accounts added further detail and perspective.  Together they tell a compelling, riveting, and heartbreaking story of what really happened at 610-ft off San Clemente Island, Southern California. It’s a story that must be told, and needs to be heard. Aquanaut Senior Chief Torpedoman Paul ‘P.A.’ Wells, was baselessly held solely responsible for the failure of SEALAB III. However, he had no responsibility nor authority to change the extensive list of problems we detail in the article. P.A. Wells deserved better from his commanding officers then, and deserves to be exonerated posthumously now.”

You can find out more information here.

Sam Helmy
Sam Helmyhttps://www.deeperblue.com
Sam Helmy is a TDI/SDI Instructor Trainer, and PADI Staff and Trimix Instructor. Diving for 28 years, a dive pro for 14, I have traveled extensively chasing my passion for diving. I am passionate about everything diving, with a keen interest in exploration, Sharks and big stuff, Photography and Decompression theory. Diving is definitely the one and only passion that has stayed with me my whole life! Sam is a Staff Writer for DeeperBlue.com

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