An Evening on a Tropical Beach by Ed Clifton (1969)

The night of February 14, 1969, I sat alone on the south shore of St. John in the U.S. Virgin Islands, listening to the waves lapping against a beach of coral rubble. The sky was brilliantly lit with stars, and a light, warm breeze touched my face. Introspection claimed me, for I was on the brink of trading my familiar sun and starlit world for an alien undersea environment.

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Letters from the Sea Floor, Project Tektite II (1970)

Letters from the seafloor Originally uploaded by Tom Clifton I was a ‘shrinklet’ (behavior observer) on Project Tektite 2, and was assigned there when the 2nd letter was postmarked (May 8, 1970). One of my secondary duties involved shuttling items to and from the habitat, command van, and base camp. There’s a possibility that I [...]

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Project Tektite: Living Research in the Sea 1969-1970

2010 Updates: See the Tektite Exhibit in Second Life at The Abyss Observatory; the Tektite Underwater Habitat Museum; Project Tektite 40th Anniversary Reunion in Lameshur Bay, St. John, Virgin Islands, November 6, 2010. (end date) 2009 Updates: Wikipedia Articles about Tektite I and II and Tektite Gallery Page Project Tektite 40th Anniversary Reunion at the [...]

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