deaths
February 17, 1969
Berry L. Cannon, American aquanaut (born 1935)
Berry L. Cannon
Berry Louis Cannon was an American aquanaut who served on the SEALAB II and III projects of the United States Navy. Cannon died while attempting to repair SEALAB III. A U.S. Navy Board of Inquiry concluded that Cannon died of carbon dioxide poisoning, and that his diving rig's baralyme canister, which should have absorbed the carbon dioxide Cannon exhaled, was empty.
February 17
February 17 is the 48th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 317 days remain until the end of the year.