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Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

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The History of Saturation Diving

In the 60s, a fellow named C F Austin of the China Lake Naval Ordinance Test Station proposed something he called the rock site concept. These would be manned undersea installations that were built into the rock of the seafloor. It makes me think, where are we now if in the 60s we could have done that?

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