Jon Lindbergh
| Jon Lindbergh | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Jon Morrow Lindbergh August 16, 1932 New York City, New York |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater |
Stanford University University of California, San Diego |
| Occupation | U.S. Navy Underwater Demolition Team, commercial diver, aquanaut |
| Spouse(s) |
Barbara Robbins (m. 1954) Maura Jansen (m. 2017) |
| Children | 6 |
| Parent(s) |
Charles Lindbergh Anne Morrow Lindbergh |
Jon Morrow Lindbergh (born August 16, 1932) is a former underwater diver from the United States. He has 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. He was also a pioneer in cave diving. He is the oldest surviving child of aviator Charles Lindbergh and writer Anne Morrow Lindbergh.
Jon Lindbergh was born on August 16, 1932, five months after the kidnapping and death of his older brother, Charles Lindbergh Jr. Jon's parents had discovered the name "Jon" in a book about Scandinavian history. During his mother's pregnancy with him, his parents received large numbers of letters and phone calls threatening his life. In 1935, photographers forced a car in which one of Jon's teachers was driving him home off the road in order to take pictures of him. Jon then began to be protected by a detective with a sawed-off shotgun. The Lindberghs soon decided to leave the United States and traveled to England.
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. In spring 1940 (when he was seven), his father placed him in a pasture with a butting ram in order to learn to protect himself from it. As a teenager, Lindbergh was allowed to make a solo three-day boat trip. He also learned to fly before leaving for college, but his father advised him not to pursue aviation as a career.
In March 1953, when 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. The dive was part of an expedition organized by speleologist Raymond de Saussure. Lindbergh discovered a hidden chamber inside the cave, confirming Saussure's theory that the nearby swimming spa was fed from such a chamber. Lindbergh returned the next month to photograph the underwater lake from a rubber raft. Lindbergh also took up mountain climbing and skydiving while in college. After his second year, he moved out of his dormitory into a tent in the foothills of the Coast Range. As a senior at Stanford, Lindbergh took part in an expedition to Mount Shasta in California, during which Werner Hopf, a 30-year-old electronics engineer from the Stanford Research Institute, fell and was seriously injured. Hopf died despite the efforts of Lindbergh and his other companions to save him.
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