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• Aug 24, 2012

BORACAY Island, Philippines ( Xinhua ) - A Chinese national died while helmet diving in Boracay Island, the most popular resort in the Philippines, this morning, according to local tourist police. Police identified the victim as Na Wang, a resident of Jiangsu Province in east China. Eugenio Villanueva, tourist police investigator, said the mishap happened when Wang along with her Chinese friends went on helmet diving in Sitio Bulabog, Balabag village. "The victim was diving 15 feet when her helmet gadget used for diving reportedly malfunctioned, and she was immediately brought to the Boracay District Hospital for treatment," Villanueva said. Attending doctors, however, declared her dead on arrival. The Boracay local council has already suspended the operation of helmet diving as police started an investigation. Click to expand...

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I saw these things being used in Guam and they frightened the pants off me. I would rather be at 30m in the dark on scuba gear than 5m in daylight in one of those.  

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The helmet style in not SNUBA.  

Thalassamania: The helmet style in not SNUBA. Click to expand...

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Regardless of the manufacturer, it appears to be basically a Miller Dunn hat reincarnate: Miller Dunn shallow water diving helmets Actually, the first effort of Augustus Siebe to convert the Deane brothers’ smoke hat for diving was not all that different — an open-bottom bucket with a view port and hose. Augustus Siebe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia What a difference a neck dam can make.  

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Timeline to Tragedy: Captain Pike’s Story So Far | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds

As star trek: strange new worlds debuts, let’s look back at the beginning (and end) of the original captain of the uss enterprise..

What a long, strange trip it’s been for Captain Pike. The original Star Trek captain, it took over 30 years before his debut episode actually aired on TV. But before that, the only story to feature him that had made it to screens was also, well, his last story.

But that all changed in 2019 when Pike was revived for a season-long run on Star Trek: Discovery. And the popularity of that version of the character, as portrayed by Anson Mount, led to him getting his own show, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.

But how did Christopher Pike get from there to here, and where exactly does Strange New Worlds fit into his story – a story that we know has a definite end? Let’s, um, engage with it all – this is Captain Pike’s timeline… so far!

Captain Pike and “The Cage”

There are two ways to look at Pike’s story – chronologically in the Star Trek universe, and chronologically in the sitting-on-the-couch watching Star Trek for most of our lives universe. We’re gonna approach this mostly from the former point of view, if only because we need to get off the couch more.

It all started when a guy named Gene Roddenberry came up with this crazy idea for a TV show set in outer space. While developing what would become the first Star Trek pilot episode, called "The Cage," Roddenberry originally named his captain Robert April. This changed a few times, from April to James Winter and then finally to Christopher Pike. Interestingly enough, the name Robert April would return in the first Trek animated series where we learned he was the captain of the USS Enterprise before Pike. He’s also an admiral now on Strange New Worlds.

(Also, let’s just get it out of the way and say, yes, we know that there was also the so-called Kelvinverse version of Pike from the J.J. Abrams movies. He was played by Bruce Greenwood, but that’s set in an alternate reality and hence doesn’t count for our purposes here.)

Anyway, actor Jeffrey Hunter played Pike in “The Cage,” where the captain is suffering from serious self-doubt over a recent mission where he lost several crewmembers. Hunter’s more melancholy take on the character is a far cry from the gung-ho, shoot-from-the-hip Captain Kirk who would eventually replace him.

Canonically, this is also the first appearance of Pike. Sorry nerds, there’s no stardate in the episode, but we can piece together that it’s the year 2254. For perspective, that’s two years before Star Trek: Discovery’s first season, and 13 years before The Original Series’ first season.

During the events of “The Cage,” Pike and his crew, including his second-in-command Number One and science officer Spock, encounter the illusion-creating aliens known as the Talosians. Pike is captured by these cranially-enhanced guys, with their plan being to repopulate their desolate planet by having him mate with a human named Vina who had crash-landed there years earlier. In the end, Pike manages to escape, of course, but learns that Vina’s true form is a physically scarred, um, hunchback. Because the Talosians who can read minds and recreate reality didn’t know how to put her back together after her crash. Somehow.

Jeffrey Hunter played Pike in "The Cage," where the captain is suffering from serious self-doubt over a recent mission where he lost several crewmembers.

Vina, desperate for human companionship, is given the illusion by the Talosians that Captain Pike stayed behind with her. But the experience on Talos IV helps restore his confidence in himself, and he jets off on the Enterprise, despite forging a bond with Vina. To be continued here.

Meanwhile, Jeffrey Hunter also jetted away, opting to not return to Star Trek after the pilot was rejected by NBC. In the real world, this is where William Shatner and Captain Kirk come in, but that’s a whole other story…

The Road to Star Trek: Strange New Worlds

After the events of “The Cage,” Discovery establishes that Captain Pike and the Enterprise sat out the Klingon War that that show’s first season depicted. The Enterprise was too valuable a resource and Starfleet ordered Pike to continue with the five-year mission that he and his crew were currently on.

A year later, in 2257, the Enterprise crew was investigating a series of mysterious red bursts across space that, frankly, we’re still a little confused about ourselves. But the important part is this is the point where Anson Mount took over the role of Pike for Discovery Season 2 in 2019. That’s 54 years after NBC rejected “The Cage” pilot, for those of you on the couch keeping count.

Pike takes over as temporary captain of the Discovery for the bulk of the season, and many an adventure is had as he and the Disco crew uncover the truth behind the red burst phenomenon – which, again, is pretty confusing and doesn’t really matter here anyway. The main thing is they save the galaxy along the way. 

But also, during this stint Pike has another run-in with Vina. Spock, now played by Ethan Peck, and Discovery’s Michael Burnham wind up on Talos IV, which was a pretty crazy revelation when the episode first aired, since the Talosians had always felt off-limits in the Star Trek world since The Original Series. Indeed, they were off-limits in-universe: Visiting Talos IV was designated death-penalty worthy after Pike’s visit there in “The Cage,” so dangerous were the Talosians’ mental abilities deemed.

Played by Melissa George here, taking over for Susan Oliver from “The Cage,” Vina is reunited briefly with Pike via Talosian telepathy. 

Interestingly, this resolves a long-standing question regarding the – let me push up my glasses here – canonicity of “The Cage.” The last bit in that episode where Vina was granted an illusion version of Pike was never quite confirmed as part of the story on Talos IV during the run of The Original Series. That’s because, while big chunks of “The Cage” were utilized in the flashback-heavy episodes “The Menagerie” Parts 1 and 2, the particular moment of Vina and Illusion Pike was repurposed in a different context. But here, Vina clearly knows that her “Pike” wasn’t real after the real Pike left the planet, though she puts it more gracefully than that.

“They brought you back to me,” she says. “Not the real you. It’s illusory of course. But the part of you that still lives inside of me… We’ve spent a lifetime together.”

"The part of you that still lives inside of me… We've spent a lifetime together," Vina tells Pike.

It’s a really nice moment, and also goes a long way to solidifying the relationship and dynamic between Pike and Vina, which we shall soon see is very, very important for Pike as a character.

Captain Pike’s Wheelchair and the Unavoidable Accident That Led Him to It

Shortly after this encounter, Pike also learned that he was fated to be tragically injured at some point in the future – a fate that Trek fans always knew was coming due to the character’s appearance on “The Menagerie.” While visiting a Klingon monastery on the planet Boreth, Pike encounters something called a time crystal, triggering a vision of his future where during an accident he is severely burned and subjected to radiation. Pike is given the choice to leave the monastery without the crystal – an act which would allow him to change this future – or take the crystal and lock the future in. Knowing that he needs the crystal to save the galaxy, he accepts his dark fate.

At the end of Season 2 of Discovery, Pike returns to the Enterprise. By now it is the year 2258 – in Star Trek time, anyway.

And that’s basically where Strange New Worlds Season 1 picks up. There’s plenty of room here for the creators of the show to play with, as the next time we see Pike in canon is that very first aired episode to feature him, “The Menagerie” Part 1, which is set nine years after 2258. Of course, in our world the episode actually aired in 1966.

At some point before the events of “The Menagerie,” we know Pike will accept a promotion to fleet captain and hand over command of the Enterprise to James T. Kirk. And in 2266, the accident he foresaw on Boreth will come to pass. While conducting an inspection tour of a cadet ship, a radiation leak will occur. Pike will save a group of cadets but he will be doused with delta rays and forced to live out the rest of his days in a life-support chair, unable to speak or even move, really.

But Mr. Spock had a last-ditch plan to help his old captain. In “The Menagerie,” Spock hijacks the Enterprise with the disabled Pike onboard, risking the death penalty in the process. When the Enterprise arrives at Talos IV, Captain Kirk comes to understand and agree with Spock’s extreme actions. Captain Pike is beamed to the surface of the planet, where the Talosians use their power of illusion to restore him to his young, Jeffrey Hunter self, so that he can live out his days with Vina. And that’s where that final moment from “The Cage,” of Vina and the illusion of Pike walking off together, is used. Only now, in its repurposed form, it’s Vina and the real Pike, finally together for good.

And so Christopher Pike’s story ends where it began. Which is kind of cool when you think about it. As the Talosian Keeper says to Captain Kirk as the illusion of Pike walks off with Vina, “Captain Pike has an illusion, and you have reality. May you find your way as pleasant.”

For even more on Star Trek, check out our Strange New Worlds review or our interview with the stars of the show .

Talk to Executive Editor Scott Collura on Twitter at @ScottCollura , or listen to his Star Trek podcast, Transporter Room 3 . Or do both!

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Space Shuttle Enterprise Damaged at Sea as Weather Delays NYC Intrepid Trip

Space shuttle Enterprise suffered minor wing damage on Sunday (June 3) when it collided with the navigation guides for a New York railroad bridge during the first half of its sea trek to a Manhattan museum for display.

Mounted atop an open-air, flat-bed barge, Enterprise was on its way from John F. Kennedy (JFK) International Airport in New York to Weeks Marine in Jersey City, N.J., when the accident occurred. The shuttle, NASA's prototype for its orbiter fleet, was making the first leg of its trip to the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum, a converted World War II aircraft carrier that is docked on Manhattan's west side.

The shuttle, which never flew in space but was used for a series of approach and landing tests in the late 1970s, was originally scheduled for delivery to the Intrepid on Tuesday (June 5) but poor weather conditions have delayed its departure until at least Wednesday, the museum said in a statement posted to its website.

Scraping by the bridge

It wasn't weather but a different type of hurdle that slowed the shuttle's arrival in the Garden State on Sunday. The shuttle needed to pass under several waterway crossings to reach Jersey City, including the South Channel Subway Bridge, as well as the Cross Bay Veterans Memorial, Gil Hodges Memorial, and Verrazano-Narrows bridges. [ Final Voyage of Space Shuttle Enterprise (Photos) ]

"The railroad bridge and the Cross Bay Bridge, each presented challenges," said Dennis Jenkins, who was on board the barge with Enterprise. "The passage through the railroad bridge was narrow with only a few feet of clearance on each wingtip, while the Cross Bay was only a few feet higher than the vertical stabilizer," he wrote in an e-mail that was shared with collectSPACE.

"Mother Nature did not smile on us. Just as the barge entered the railroad bridge, the wind caught it and pushed the right wing into the bridge abutment. Fortunately, the damage seems to be cosmetic, limited to the foam that covered the wingtip. No structure or mechanisms appear to have been damaged," Jenkins wrote.

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Jenkins' photos of the damage, which were also shared with collectSPACE.com, show Enterprise as it neared the bridge's navigation aid wooden bumpers. The shuttle's right wing scraped along the bridge barrier, which caused foam chunks to break away from the leading edge of Enterprise's elevon , or flap.

The Intrepid confirmed the damage in a statement released late Sunday.

"A sudden microburst of wind, measured at 35 knots, caused the rub panel foam protective layer of the wingtip of Enterprise to graze the protective wood piling bumpers in the water designed to bumper vessels," the museum said.

Despite the damage, the space shuttle continued on its way to New Jersey with little pause.

"The Cross Bay provided a few heart-stopping seconds, but that was mostly because we were gun-shy after the incident at the railroad bridge (the two bridges are only a few hundred yards apart)," Jenkins wrote. "The rest of the journey was completed without incident."

Enterprise arrived at Weeks Marine on Sunday evening, after it was already dark.

"We will [on Monday be able to] better assess the wingtip damage (it was late by the time we docked, with almost no light available)," Jenkins wrote.

Delayed departure

Enterprise was originally scheduled to switch barges on Monday, to one equipped with a crane to hoist the shuttle onto Intrepid's flight deck. The weather however, did not cooperate with moving the orbiter.

"The planned final leg of the journey of space shuttle Enterprise to its new home at the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum has been postponed due to inclement weather which is delaying the prep work necessary to ferry and crane the shuttle to its final destination," the Intrepid advised in a statement. "A new moving date has been tentatively set for Wednesday, June 6."

Enterprise's moves, whether it is between barges or to the Intrepid, are dependent on weather and tidal conditions, the museum said.

The delay to Enterprise's arrival is not expected to affect the public opening of the Intrepid's new "Space Shuttle Pavilion," which remains set for July 19.

See more photos of Enterprise's Sunday barge trip here and visit shuttles.collectspace.com for continuing coverage of the delivery and display of NASA's retired space shuttles.

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Robert Pearlman is a space historian, journalist and the founder and editor of collectSPACE.com , an online publication and community devoted to space history with a particular focus on how and where space exploration intersects with pop culture. Pearlman is also a contributing writer for Space.com and co-author of "Space Stations: The Art, Science, and Reality of Working in Space” published by Smithsonian Books in 2018. He previously developed online content for the National Space Society and Apollo 11 moonwalker Buzz Aldrin, helped establish the space tourism company Space Adventures and currently serves on the History Committee of the American Astronautical Society, the advisory committee for The Mars Generation and leadership board of For All Moonkind. In 2009, he was inducted into the U.S. Space Camp Hall of Fame in Huntsville, Alabama. In 2021, he was honored by the American Astronautical Society with the Ordway Award for Sustained Excellence in Spaceflight History.

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