20 Facts About Jon Lindbergh

Jon Morrow Lindbergh was an American underwater diver.

Jon Lindbergh worked as a United States Navy demolition expert and as a commercial diver, and was one of the world's earliest aquanauts in the 1960s.

Jon Lindbergh was a pioneer in cave diving, and one of the children of aviators Charles Lindbergh and Anne Morrow Lindbergh.

Jon Lindbergh's parents had discovered the name "Jon Lindbergh" in a book about Scandinavian history.

In 1935, photographers forced a car in which one of Jon Lindbergh's teachers was driving him home off the road in order to take pictures of him.

Jon Lindbergh then began to be protected by a detective with a sawed-off shotgun.

Jon Lindbergh's father tried to teach him how to swim when he was three years old by repeatedly throwing him into the deep end of a swimming pool.

Jon Lindbergh learned to fly before leaving for college, but his father advised him not to pursue aviation as a career.

In March 1953, when Jon Lindbergh was a marine biology student at Stanford University, he made the first successful cave dive in the United States at Bower Cave in California.

Jon Lindbergh discovered a hidden chamber inside the cave, confirming Saussure's theory that the nearby swimming spa was fed from such a chamber.

Jon Lindbergh returned the next month to photograph the underwater lake from a rubber raft.

Jon Lindbergh took up mountain climbing and skydiving while in college.

Jon Lindbergh graduated from Stanford, where he had been a member of the Navy ROTC, and did postgraduate work at the University of California, San Diego.

Jon Lindbergh served for three years as a frogman with the United States Navy Underwater Demolition Team, reaching the rank of Lieutenant.

Jon Lindbergh then became a commercial diver, working for Offshore Divers, Inc in Santa Barbara, California, and making dives from offshore oil rigs on the West Coast of the United States at depths between 230 and 400 feet.

Stenuit and Jon Lindbergh stayed in Link's SPID habitat for 49 hours underwater at a depth of 432 feet, breathing a helium-oxygen mixture.

Jon Lindbergh married Barbara Robbins on March 20,1954, in Northfield, Illinois.

Jon Lindbergh was married to Maura Jansen, with whom he had two daughters.

When his father was dying, Jon Lindbergh took charge of transporting him from New York City to Hawaii to die, and helped build his father's grave.

Jon Lindbergh died from renal cancer in Lewisburg, West Virginia, on July 29,2021, at the age of 88.