Project FAMOUS

okay and i dove in quite a number of them and the problem is is like i dove for example to the deepest active volcanoes in the world off the cayman islands in 20 000 feet of water great down 6 000 meters and it took me six hours to get to work in the morning and six hours to get home at night and i only had a few hours on the bottom Well, Elvin

really made its mark around 1973 as part of Project Famous.

That was the French-American mid-ocean undersea study.

And it was all about conducting the first manned exploration of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, which you wrote up and published in the journal Science in 1975.

Well, Elvin really made its

mark around 1973 as part of Project Famous.

That was the French-American mid-ocean undersea study.

And it was all about conducting the first manned exploration of the mid-Atlantic ridge, which you wrote up and published in the journal Science in 1975.

People were totally against using Halvin when I was promoting it.

And then when we used Alvin in Project Famous to throw away the book on plate tectonics, everyone wanted to get an Alvin.

But I was saying, no, no, that's old passe.

You want to go to underwater vehicle system because Alvin means most of your time going up and down to the bottom, not much on the bottom.