---
category: Scientific Theory & Technology
created: 2025-07-23
date: 1977
description: Taurus I was a state-of-the-art, five-man submersible used in Project
  Deep Quest to locate an underwater shipwreck.
summary: Taurus I was a five-man research submersible capable of 1,000-foot depths
  used in the 1977 Project Deep Quest psychic experiment to test whether remote viewing
  could locate an underwater shipwreck.
tags:
- vessel
- submersible
- technology
title: Taurus I
updated: 2025-07-23
---

*[Taurus I](/concepts/taurus-i/)* was a state-of-the-art, five-man submersible capable of traveling to a depth of 1,000 feet. It was 31 feet long and cost $3 million to build. It featured a large viewport and a claw to retrieve items from the ocean floor.[^1]

In 1977, *Taurus I* was used in [Project Deep Quest](/programs/project-deep-quest/), a psychic functioning experiment led by [Stephan Schwartz](/people/stephan-schwartz/). The submersible was used to investigate a location identified by psychics [Ingo Swann](/people/ingo-swann/) and [Hella Hammid](/people/hella-hammid/) as a potential shipwreck site. The project successfully located a previously unidentified shipwreck, with *Taurus I* pulling up several pieces of the wreck.[^1]

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[^1]: Jacobsen, Annie. *Phenomena: The Secret History of the U.S. Government's Investigations into Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis*. Little, Brown and Company, 2017.