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Lockheed Aircraft Corporation - In January, Lockheed's "Deep Quest" 

 located and positively indentified visually, through ports , the tail section of the 

 Scandinavian DC-8 jet airliner that crashed January 13th in Santa Monica Bay, six 

 miles from the Los Angeles Airport in 325 feet of water. On February 5th, it was 

 reported that the wreckage of a United Airlines Boeing 727, which had crashed into 

 the sea off Los Angeles on January 18th, had been found 11 miles offshore, scattered 

 around on the ocean floor in 924 feet of water. All 38 persons aboard died in this 

 accident which occurred shortly after takeoff. United Airlines chartered the 

 Lockheed Missiles & Space Company's "Deep Quest" submersible in an effort to 

 recover the flight data and voice recorders from which it might be possible to 

 determine the cause of this accident. On February 28th, the cockpit voice record- 

 er was recovered and on March 4th the flight recorder was recovered by a team 

 working from the "Deep Quest". This submersible also found and assisted in the 

 raising of all three engines of the 727. "Deep Quest" received Navy safety cer- 

 tification late last fall, when it was successfully tested to 8, 050 feet. 



Westinghouse Electric Corporation - Scientists from the Westinghouse 

 Ocean Research Laboratory have been diving in the Santa Barbara Channel in the 

 company's "Deep Star 4000" to study the status of sea l^fe as a result of the recent 

 oil spillage from an offshore oil rig there. They will continue to monitor the area 

 periodically to determine any changes, other than natural changes, that may have 

 been caused by the oil slick over a long period of time. 



General Dynamics Corporation - Last December, General Dynamics 

 launched "Sea Cliff" and "Turtle", identical deep diving submarines built by the 

 company's Electric Boat Division. Raadm. Thomas B. Owen, Chief of Naval 

 Research, said at the launching ceremonies that these vessels will enable the 

 Navy to investigate 16% of the ocean floor, a portion equivalent in size to the 

 surface of the moon. He also indicated that "Sea Cliff" would be used in an attempt 

 to raise the research submarine "Alvin" which sank in 5, 000 feet of water south 

 of Cape Cod last October. We reported on this incident in our November 1968 re- 

 port. "Turtle" will be assigned to the Atlantic Underwater Test and Evaluation 

 Center (AUTEC) in the Bahamas for the purpose of maintaining the underwater 

 comiponents of the AUTEC range including miles of cable, some of which lie at 

 depths of 6, 500 feet. 



On January 25, 1969, the world's first nuclear-powered research sub- 

 miarine, the NR-1, was launched for the Navy. This vessel is equipped with rollers 

 to let it ride on the ocean floor and mechanical arms to pick up objects and perform 

 useful work. It will demonstrate the feasibility of nuclear propulsion in a small 

 vehicle and the ability to perform a variety of ocean engineering and military tasks. 

 Until the advent of NR-1 all deep submergence vehicles have been extremely limited 

 in operations in endurance and range by the fact that they have been powered by 

 batteries. Like a nuclear-powered Navy submarine, the propulsion and auxiliary 

 power source for NR-1 is, for all practical purposes, unlimited. She can stay down 

 as long as on-board food and supplies hold out. The 140-foot 400-ton boat will be 

 manned by a crew of five navy men and two scientists. Vice Admiral Hyman G. 



