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| Radio Expeditions correspondent Alex Chadwick, left, and Earle aboard the NOAA ship Gordon Gunter. Photo: Kip F. Evans/National Geographic Society, 2001 |
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| The Deepworker submarine is lowered into the sea from the Gordon Gunter. The one-man submersible promises to change marine science by providing an easier and much more economical way to explore the deep sea. The $400,000 vessel lets scientists shoot video and take notes for hours in complete comfort. Photo: Kip F. Evans/National Geographic Society, 2001 |
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Earle prepares for a dive that will take her several hundred feet beneath the ocean surface. During the dives, she spends five to six hours at a time in Deepworker, getting acquainted with feisty jawfish and grouper fish. Groupers dig nests 6 feet deep and 15 feet across in the sea floor -- a behavior only recently discovered by biologists. Photo: Kip F. Evans/National Geographic Society, 2001 |
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