In his first book, Sealab, journalist Ben Hellwarth examines a little-known, non-ideological Cold War quest: While NASA’s race to continually one-up the Soviets in conquering outer space was well-funded headline news, similar Navy attempts to go deeper in the ocean with saturation diving were shoestring, back-page-news affairs. Hellwarth’s approach is refreshingly dry: Rather than hyperbolically claiming that this saga secretly changed everything, Sealab methodically outlines some 60 years of ocean-depths breakthroughs under-reported in their time and forgotten by history.
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