Manned submersible incident in which two divers died
Johnson Sea Link accident
Date
June 17, 1973 (1973-06-17)
Location
Off Key West
Cause
Entangled submersible
Participants
Archibald Menzies, Robert Meek, Edwin Clayton Link, Albert Dennison Stover
Outcome
Successful rescue of Menzies and Meek; recovery of bodies of Link and Stover
The Johnson Sea Link accident was a June 1973 incident that claimed the lives of two divers. During a seemingly routine dive off Key West, the submersible Johnson Sea Link was trapped for over 24 hours in the wreckage of the destroyer USS Fred T. Berry, which had been sunk to create an artificial reef. Although the submersible was eventually recovered by the rescue vessel A.B. Wood II, two of the four occupants died of carbon dioxide poisoning: 31-year-old Edwin Clayton Link (son of Edwin Albert Link, the submersible's designer) and 51-year-old diver Albert Dennison Stover. The submersible's pilot, Archibald "Jock" Menzies, and ichthyologist Robert Meek survived.[1][2][3] Over the next two years, Edwin Link designed an unmanned Cabled Observation and Rescue Device (CORD) that could free a trapped submersible.[4][5]
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^Clark, Martha; Eichelberger, Jeanne. "Edwin A. Link 1904-1981". Binghamton University Libraries. Archived from the original on March 17, 2012. Retrieved February 7, 2013.
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