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category: Psi Research Program
created: 2025-07-23
date: 1977
description: Project Deep Quest was a unique psychic functioning experiment conducted
  in 1977, involving remote viewing to locate an underwater shipwreck from a submersible.
location: Catalina Island, California
summary: Project Deep Quest was a unique psychic functioning experiment conducted
  in 1977, involving Remote Viewing to locate an underwater shipwreck from a submersible.
tags:
- program
- research
- psi
- military
title: Project Deep Quest
updated: 2025-07-23
---

[Project Deep Quest](/programs/project-deep-quest/) was a unique psychic functioning experiment conducted in 1977, involving [Remote Viewing](/concepts/remote-viewing/) to locate an underwater shipwreck from a submersible. It was a collaborative effort between [Stephan Schwartz](/people/stephan-schwartz/), [Hal Puthoff](/people/hal-puthoff/), [Dale Graff](/people/dale-graff/), and psychics [Ingo Swann](/people/ingo-swann/) and [Hella Hammid](/people/hella-hammid/).[^1]

The project had two main elements: an unclassified one focused on locating a shipwreck, and a classified project for the [U.S. Air Force](/organizations/us-air-force/) to test long-distance remote viewing inside a submersible. For the unclassified part, Swann and Hammid used map dowsing techniques to identify potential shipwreck locations on a nautical chart of Catalina Island. The submersible *Taurus I* was then used to investigate the identified location.[^1]

The project successfully located a previously unidentified shipwreck, marking the first time psychics had located an underwater archaeological site from inside a submersible. The classified portion, designed to test remote viewing for emergency military scenarios, also yielded positive results, suggesting the potential for [PSI-INT](/concepts/psi-int/) in operational contexts.[^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.