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Dr. John Camperman, PE, PhD
Senior Scientist, US Navy, NAVSEA, Diving and Life Support Division

John began his diving experience with Scuba Certification at 15 years of age and was soon experimenting with home-made camera housings, habitats and a two person submarine he constructed as a high school shop project. Providence allowed him to survive his early projects and he completed Ocean Engineering graduate degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Florida Atlantic University. He is a graduate of the 1976 Scientist in the Sea Program and Advanced Science Diving courses at Florida State University. John lived aboard a sailboat for many years while he was teaching at the Florida Institute of Technology. His twenty five year career includes wave loading analysis of offshore platforms, vibration abatement in submarines, and design / certification of underwater life support equipment for the U.S. Navy. He served on the Naval Experimental Diving Unit Human Testing Review Committee, and is on the Florida State University, Panama City Campus Scientific Diving Control Board. He is currently working to facilitate projects that team the Navy, NOAA, academic, and commercial resources to further saturation diving. John is quick to thank God for Gail who tolerates her husband's underwater adventures, and for David who jumps into them with his Dad.


Mission Date: April, 2003
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