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Will Forman Navy submersible film collection

Owning Institution: UC San Diego, Special Collections and Archives

About this Collection

Forty-five digitally reformatted films from the collection of Will Forman on U.S. Navy submersibles, particularly the development of Deep Jeep at the Naval Ordnance Test Station (NOTS) at China Lake, California. The collection also includes footage of Deep View; Denise, the Cousteau soucoupe submersible; and travel in Japan and Japanese submersible technologies.

Willis "Will" R. Forman was a submersible designer, engineer, and project manager at the Naval Undersea Research & Development Center in San Diego, California. He participated in the development of the Deep Jeep and Deep View submersibles in the 1960s. View this collection on the contributor's website.

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45 items found in this collection

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Deep Jeep
Deep Jeep
Deep Jeep - Early propulsion tests
Deep Jeep - Early propulsion tests
Deep Jeep - Glenn Minard
Deep Jeep - GMC first untethered
Deep Jeep - SCI 6A top
Deep Jeep 2500' U/M test, Santa Barbara
Deep Jeep, China Lake
Deep Jeep GMC - Early manned tests
Deep Jeep hardware
Deep Jeep Manned sea trial
Deep Jeep personnel
Deep Jeep test - Material for TV release
Deep View
Deep View (glass dome submersible) certification tests, Catalina
Deep View glass research
Deep View progress report #1
Diving locker, first trial
Early manned Deep Jeep
Early tethered GMC Deep Jeep
First Deep Jeep launch, Rincon Pier
First Deep Jeep unmanned dives
First Kumu submersible sphere test
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