NSWCPC collaborating with NASA

LARGO, Fla. - Naval Surface Warfare Center Panama City, Fla., scientists, engineers and key partners are collaborating, by taking an NSWCPC technology, originally designed for diving from the seabed to space. The Diver Augmented Vision Device (DAVD) team from NSWCPC, and partners, recently joined forces with NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Texas during NEEMO-23, the 23rd voyage of NASA’s Extreme Environment Mission Operations held at the Aquarius Reef Base underwater habitat 5.4 miles off Key Largo. The Aquarius Reef Base, operated by Florida International University, is the only undersea laboratory in the world. Aquarius, and its surroundings, provides ideal training for space exploration by providing buoyancy similar to walking on the Moon. DAVD is a high-resolution, see-through head-up display (HUD) embedded directly inside of a Kirby Morgan-37 dive helmet. This unique system provides divers with high-resolution visual displays of everything from real-time topside view of a diver's location and dive site, text messages, diagrams, photographs, and even augmented reality videos. NSWCPC designed, developed, and tested the original DAVD prototype. (Source: Naval Sea Systems Command 07/16/19)