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Artwork depicting closed-cycle underwater breathing system, designed and builtby General Electric's Re-entry adn Environmental Systems Division

Description

Artwork depicting closed-cycle underwater breathing system, designed and builtby General Electric's Re-entry adn Environmental Systems Division. This systemwill be used for the first time in underwater research in the Tektite II Program. This system can operate for up to six hours and does not generate bubbleslike conventional scuba, thus enabling inconspicuous marine life observations.

Credit

NOAA Central Library Historical Fisheries Collection

Collection

Historic Fisheries