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Living underwater and working submerged poses unique engineering challenges, similar to visiting outer space. Indeed, there is enough similarity between missions to the International Space Station and living in an underwater habitat, that NASA astronauts train at Aquarius. This module …
Recorded ‘as live’ a film with Drs. Hagan and Patterson, Capt. Renaud and award-winning filmmaker and cameraman D.J. Roller will venture outside Aquarius after the sun sets to see how the reef changes at night. Mr. Roller will have a …
The Aquarius Underwater Habitat is an underwater laboratory and habitat which sits at a depth of sixty-two feet under the ocean’s surface. It is located nine miles southeast from the habitat’s operations centre in Key Largo, Florida, and three miles …
In this About Capt Phil Renaud Video, meet the SeaCAMEL Program Coordinator of Living Oceans Foundation Project SeaCAMEL.
In this About Annelise Hagan Video, meet the the Project SeaCAMEL Aquanaut (scientific research diver living in Aquarius habitat) and expedition underwater photographer.
In this About Dr. Mark Patterson Video, meet the Project SeaCAMEL Chief Scientist and Aquarius Aquanaut.
Adjacent to the 126 mile stretch of the Florida Keys island chain, the coral reef tract of the Keys is the third most extensive barrier reef in the world and the only living barrier reef in North America. The 2,800 …
Movie showing 154 profiles of dissolved oxygen around Aquarius made during a Project SeaCAMEL saturation mission, forming an “O2 Dance.” Note how variable these profiles are, but with some common qualitative features.
Movie of two scientists working rapidly at a deep site (35 m) in the Gulf of Maine, making measurements on the velocities of excurrent jets exiting from the sponges, taking samples and assessing the size of the excurrent openings, oscula, …
Movie of recirculating heated flow chambers used by Dr. Patterson and his team at Aquarius to investigate coral bleaching. Second part of movie shows corals being removed from the chambers to delicately sample the tissue of the coral, to test …