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Project Deep Quest

Project Deep Quest was a unique psychic functioning experiment conducted in 1977, involving Remote Viewing to locate an underwater shipwreck from a submersible.

Date 1977 Location Catalina Island, California Mentions 7 Tags programresearchpsimilitary

Project Deep Quest was a unique psychic functioning experiment conducted in 1977, involving Remote Viewing to locate an underwater shipwreck from a submersible. It was a collaborative effort between Stephan Schwartz, Hal Puthoff, Dale Graff, and psychics Ingo Swann and 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 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 in operational contexts.1


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

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