After complete overhaul, AQUARIUS is christened and readied for sea.

Monster buoy stands watch and delivers life support to AQUARIUS.

Divers guide the 15 meter long AQUARIUS onto the baseplate.

AQUARIUS is towed to the Conch Reef off Key Largo for its third deployment.

AQUARIUS floats just before it is flooded and sunk to the reef.

AQUARIUS weighs 100 tons in air but can be weightless underwater.

Manned AQUARIUS Support Barge was replaced by a Life Support Buoy in 1997.

In 1997, a partnership of industry and government rebuilt AQUARIUS.

Divers excurt (dive) from AQUARIUS. They can stay out for 9 hours per day.

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ALVIN and her support ship R/V Atlantis.

R/V Kila tows the Makalii sub aboard the LRT submersible barge.

At the end of the rainbow. . .R/V Kila and Makalii submersible.

Beaver submersible and support ship underway.

Nitrox gas mixing system and recompression chamber.

Converted fishing vessel/life support barge for Aquarius habitat at dock..

Scuba locker at the shore base for the Aquarius undersea lab in St. Croix.

Offshore St. Croix near the site of the West Indies Lab and Aquarius habitat.

Pressure test on the shore base recompression chamber, Aquarius habitat program.

Damage from Hurricane Hugo at the Aquarius habitat shore base in St. Croix.

Undersea habitat assembly, cylinders and spheres withstand pressure.

Experimental recompression chambers allow studies of hyperbaric conditions.

Shipboard recompression chamber on the R/V Lulu during FLARE project.

Snug Harbor, Hawaii, home to the NURP Hawaii and Pacific center and Pisces sub.

R/V Keldish, mother ship for the MIRs subs.

R/V Seahawk, former surface supplied support ship for NURP's southeast center.,

One person Drager recompression chamber.

NURP's Caribbean Marine Research Center on Lee Stocking Island, Bahamas.

Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute's R/V Seward Johnson and JSL sub.

Snug Harbor Hawaii, field base for the Hawaii Undersea Research Lab.

R/V Natsushima, Japan's support ship for the SHINKAI subs.

Rutgers Univ. field station at Tuckerton NJ, shore base for the LEO observatory.

Kaimikai-O-Kanaloa (KoK) is mother ship for the Pisces V sub.

Bill High, former HYDROLAB aquanaut and NMFS scientist.

Elliott Finkle, NURP director during the 1980s.

First all female saturation team in training for TEKTITE, 1970.

Elliott Finkle

TEKTITE II all female team in crews quarters, including Sylvia Earle (b&w suit).

R. Cooper, R. Slater, and J. Uzmann (l-r) view sub tapes from submarine canyon.

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In 1970, all female team performed as well as males in scientific sat mission.

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Life in an undersea habitat.

Dr. Morgan Wells, former NOAA Dive Prog. Dir., Jim Miller and Jean Jaubert, a French biologist from the Laboratory of General Biology, Nice, France. (r-l).

R. Clifford prepares A. Bryson for dive to Jeffries Ledge off Mass.

TEKTITE II all-female team, led by S. Earle (far rgt), in rebreather training.

SEALAB's "Poppa Topside" and father of saturation diving, George F. Bond.