330-PSA-128-64 (USN 1096760) (22766940002)

330-PSA-128-64 (USN 1096760): Sealab I, the U.S. Navy’s underwater research laboratory, departs Panama City, Florida, Saturday morning June 6, 1964, en-route to the U.S. Naval Station, Bermuda. The lab will be aboard a research support vessel towed by USS Salinan (ATF-161). The trip will take about one week. Tests lasting three weeks are scheduled to being in 192 feet of water southwest of Bermuda, July 6. Five Navy Men, including Astronaut Scott Carpenter, will live and work in Sealab I during the tests. Shown: Sealab I, the Navy’s 40-foot undersea laboratory. Photograph released May 14, 1964. (2015/11/03).