Tektite habitat

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The Tektite Habitat was placed in Lameshur Bay, St. John, Virgin Islands in 1969–70. The underwater laboratory was the home to divers during Tektite I and II programs. The United States Office of Naval Research coordinated Tektite I and the US the Department of the Interior coordinated Tektite II, with part of the funding coming from NASA, which was interested in the psychological study of the scientific teams working in closed environments, similar to that of spacecraft.

The Tektite Habitat was designed and constructed by the General Electric Company. The Habitat appears as a pair of silos: Two white metal cylinders 4 m in diameter, 6 m high, joined by a flexible tunnel and seated on a rectangular base in 15 m of water.

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__ Collette, B.B. and S.A. Earle. (Eds.). 1972. Results of the Tektite Program: Ecology of coral-reef fishes. Los Angeles Co. Nat. Hist. Mus. Sci. Bull. 14. 180 p.

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