FIGURE 20. The research submersible, ASHERAH shown here being 

 lowered from the dock into the water, is 16 feet long end carries a 

 pilot ond observer. Her nome comes from that of o Phoenician goddess 

 of the seo. ASHERAH was chortered by the Laboratory in Honolulu 

 for a month's underwater studies off the leeward coast of Oahu, 



FIGURE 21. Boarding ASHERAH could be o tricky business, portic 

 ulorly in rough seas. The croft has a maximum operating depth of 

 650 feet. Scientists in ASHERAH mode a number of fresh ond signifi 

 cant observations of life underwater ond discovered firsthand some of 

 the potentials of submersibles in fishery and oceonography research. 



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