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The 39 inch Seaview kit will include:
Flying Sub with stand
Mini Sub
Diving Bell
Eight crew figures
Thirty Nine inches long.
Seaview, a fictitious privately owned nuclear submarine, was the setting for the 1961 movie, starring Walter Pidgeon, and 1964-to-1968 ABC television series Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea. For the motion picture, Nelson was the designer/builder of the Seaview, paid for by his family fortune & government funding, and operated under the auspices of the Bureau of Marine Exploration, US Dept of Science (per art director Herman Blumenthal). The Seaview was in many ways similar to an early 1960's James Madison-class SSBN, though longer and wider to accommodate special exploration gear. In the context of the series, the Seaview was one of two experimental submarines designed by retired Admiral Harriman Nelson (Richard Basehart), Director of the Nelson Institute of Marine Research, a top-secret government complex located in Santa Barbara, California, in the then-future years between 1973 and 1983. Seaview had a sister ship, the Polidor (attack sub design), which was destroyed in the third episode of the series.
.Ages 10 and up.
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