Johnson Sea Link accident

*Johnson Sea Link accident*
Date	June 17, 1973
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. Over the next two years, Edwin Link designed an unmanned Cabled Observation and Rescue Device (CORD) that could free a trapped submersible.

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