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Ben Hellwarth

Ben Hellwarth
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Ben Hellwarth

Ben Hellwarth grew up in Los Angeles and began reporting, writing, and editing for papers in the Bay Area after graduating from the University of California, Berkeley. He won a number of notable journalism awards in the 1990s as a staff writer for the Santa Barbara News-Press, then part of The New York Times Regional Newspaper Group. He divides his time between southern California and western Pennsylvania. Sealab is his first book. Visit him at www.benhellwarth.com.

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Sealab will be released on January 10, 2012 in Hardcover, eBook
Jan 10, 2012
Sealab is now available in Hardcover, eBook
Jan 10, 2012

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NWI Times, February 15, 2013
...Z 2013-02-14T20:19:06Z Jane Ammeson Times Correspondent nwitimes.com If you go What: Ben Hellwarth will talk about his book at Our World – Underwater, The Midwest’s Largest Dive and Travel Expo. When: Sunday, Feb. 17, 1:45 p.m. Where:...
Gapers Block, February 13, 2013
...By Rebecca Hyland Come back to the Book Cellar (4736 N. Lincoln Ave.) this Saturday, February 16, when Ben Hellwarth reads from . The tale of the abandoned U.S. Navy program from the early '60s, author Neal Bascomb calls it "A remarkably stirring...
New York Review of Books, January 17, 2013
...disrupt ongoing jobs, but they create new ones. 1 For a deft account of deep diving history, see Ben Hellwarth, Sealab: America’s Forgotten Quest to Live and Work on the Ocean Floor (Simon and Schuster, 2012), which focuses on the Navy’s efforts to...
Hampton Roads Daily Press, June 7, 2012
...Roberts said. Summer Lecture Series The Summer Lecture Series at The Mariners' Museum in Newport News continues with Ben Hellwarth, author of "Sealab: America's Forgotten Quest to Live and Work on the Ocean Floor" at 7 p.m. on June 13. For the full...
New York Review of Books, January 17, 2013
...disrupt ongoing jobs, but they create new ones. 1 For a deft account of deep diving history, see Ben Hellwarth, Sealab: America’s Forgotten Quest to Live and Work on the Ocean Floor (Simon and Schuster, 2012), which focuses on the Navy’s efforts to...
Ventura County Star, November 8, 2012
...Drive, Simi Valley. $45. 522-2977; reaganfoundation.org. UP NORTH SEALAB Talk: Using photographs, video and audio clips, journalist Ben Hellwarth, author of "SEALAB: America's Forgotten Quest to Live and Work on the Ocean Floor," will discuss a "golden...
Seattle Times, August 11, 2012
..." But the ocean has always played second fiddle to the atmosphere and space in attention and funding. Ben Hellwarth, who wrote the new book "SEALAB: America's Forgotten Quest to Live and Work on the Ocean Floor," said if Aquarius' possible last mission...
Individual.com, August 6, 2012
..." But the ocean has always played second fiddle to the atmosphere and space in attention and funding. Ben Hellwarth, who wrote the new book "SEALAB: America's Forgotten Quest to Live and Work on the Ocean Floor," said if Aquarius' possible last mission...
Gizmodo Australia, August 3, 2012
...the end of an age of manned undersea exploration — an era that’s still just beginning. Journalist Ben Hellwarth is the author of the new book SEALAB: America’s Forgotten Quest to Live and Work on the Ocean Floor...
Gizmodo, August 3, 2012
...Ben Hellwarth E Every American knows the names Mercury, Gemini and Apollo. At the dawn of the space age, another frontier was under exploration, tooalthough it never had the fanfare or...
Gizmodo, August 3, 2012
...also be the end of an age of manned undersea explorationan era that's still just beginning. Journalist Ben Hellwarth is the author of the new book SEALAB: America's Forgotten Quest to Live and Work on the Ocean Floor...