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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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Footprints in the sea
GMC Deep Jeep battery drop
Grinding Deep View glass hemisphere
Helicopter footage of Navy vessel carrying Deep Jeep
Hikino and Sea See trials at Camp Edison, Shaver Lake
Japan Jomiuri Kuroshio
Japanese submersibles
Japanese submersibles
Kumu manned submersible sphere
Launch of a large sphere at sea
Model Deep Jeep structural research
Platform YFU
Project Deep Jeep 1/10 scale model testing study at the U.S. Navy …
A quick look report: Underwater anthropomorphic tethered vehicle (ATV) and DSSP swimming …
Report on Anthropomorphic Undersea Vehicle and Tortuga
Roll #47, Deep View at Catalina Island
Roll #54, Deep View at Catalina Island
SCI - range: Deep Jeep sea dives
Soucoupe dives 161 and 162 - Footage from submersible
Soucoupe/CURV: Handshake underwater
Yomiuri Chi Chi, Japan
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