Talk:Underwater habitat

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The Hydrolab image is reversed. The person entering the habitat should be on the right, so that the instrument panels would be on the right side of someone walking towards the large window on the opposite end.

The cut-away section (left side) contained three bunk beds. Although the maximum number of aquanauts was four, one person was required to be up and awake at all times. The person ending their night watch would simply trade spots with the person who was on duty next. Space was at a premium since the living chamber of the habitat was roughly eight feet tall and fifteen feet long (dimensions from memory and not verified by documentation).

The source for the image information is the original drawing, which is in my possession.

Anza 07:44, 23 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Scott Carpenter Space Analog Station

This subentry wrongly suggests that the SCSAS is, or was once, a viable underwater habitat and uses the name of noted Sealab aquanaut (and Mercury astronaut) Scott Carpenter. Although so named with Carpenter's permission, Carpenter was unaware that the SCSAS had not met (nor had it submitted to) NASA's safety and hazards inspections. It was later determined by NASA experts (and others) to be uninhabitable and unsuitable for the purposes for which it was purportedly designed.

Now it works only as a subentry on the Wiki, on equal footing with actual, viable underwater habitats, for example, Aquarius, MarineLab, and La Chalupa Research Laboratory.

Wholesale deletion suggested. paxrkec 03:59, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

00:28, 14 October 2007 (UTC)