Preparation -
Team members Kathy Misiaszek and Kye Kennedy prepare diver Dan
Misiaszek with underwater video and communication gear during a
practice dive in the 71 degree water. Video camera provided by
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Preparation - Standing on top of the submarine, a transducer is
dropped into the water to allow for duplex communications between
divers and the topside support team. Dark clouds and the
warning by the National Weather Service of severe thunderstorms and
lightning threaten to cancel the entire event.
In the water and beginning the dive, Dan Misiaszek points a hand
held
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at the audience inside the submarine theater. (Photo courtesy of the
San Marcos Daily Record, Anita Miller)
Spectators
inside the submarine theater watch through the windows and also on a
TV monitor which was set up to monitor Dan throughout the entire
dive. (Photo by Jim Evans)
Kathy Misiaszek, still wearing a wetsuit from a support dive, is
interviewed by the media inside the submarine theater. (Photo by
Jim Evans)
Kaitlin Davis is captured by Austin NEWS 8 as she watches her
father through the windows. (Photo courtesy of NEWS 8 Austin)
Wearing a full face mask, orange dry suit, and underwater
communications, Dan is seen here early on in the dive.
After battling hypothermia, the support divers add an additional wet
suit over the familiar orange dry suit. Dan is seen here
interacting with the crowd in the sub. (Photo by Jim Evans)
Long dark nights looking into the submarine and talking with the
support team.
Support divers prepare the 12 tanks used a total of 130 times to
replenish Dan's air supply.
The
media is gathering inside the sub as
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keep a constant vigil on the situation.
SMART Diver Kye Kennedy talks to the press with less than two
hours to go on the official clock!
Now wearing a
wet suit over his dry suit for additional thermal protection, Dan is
carrying an extra stage tank and entertaining the crowd with the
hand held
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(Photo by Ashley A. Horton, University STAR)
VIDEO
- This is the actual video shown on the news after the completion
of the dive. (Best viewed on Windows media player. Right click to
download or double click to view) Courtesy of NEWS 4 - SAN
ANTONIO.
After 60 hours
and 24 minutes, Dan slowly climbs the latter to dry land.
With hands pruned as white as a ghost, Dan smiles to the
applauding crowd. (SMART Diver Bob Klett with his back to the
camera, Kathy Misiaszek on the left clapping her hands)
Dazed and unsteady on his feet after 2-1/2 days in a weightless
environment, Dan is helped to the showers by SMART Diver Don White.
After a quick shower, Dan faces the media cameras and compliments
the support team. "I had the easy job, the support
divers and topside team had to do all the work"- Dan
Misiaszek
Some of the
supporting team members that helped make this dive possible.
A relaxed moment with the family and a cake "SIXTY +".
