The SEALAB program ran till 1969 and helped to ascertain a format and science for saturation diving. And in it, Bob was not solely instrumental within the execution of some really daring diving, he’s additionally credited with the grass-roots start of the helium escape valve and, by means of a further however very becoming flip of destiny, the Rolex Sea-Dweller. Again in 2012, Bob was sort sufficient to take a seat down with our personal Jason Heaton and inform the story of the Submariner he wore whereas diving on SEALAB I and the time that one related SEALAB instance was misplaced after an extended evening in Rio de Janeiro.
In case you occur to have missed it, it is an interesting story of the Navy engaged on absolutely the reducing fringe of diving and an vital chapter within the improvement of the Rolex Submariner as a instrument on the wrist of a real sea dweller.
Relaxation In Peace, Bob.
