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Underwater Exploration and Studies

Diving scenes from underwater explorations featuring marine life, scuba divers, and research activities related to marine conservation and archaeology.

Diver measuring Hard Coral, Acropora sp., Angsana Maldives Ihuru, North Male Atoll, The Maldives.
Diver measuring Hard Coral, Acropora sp., Angsana Maldives Ihuru, North Male Atoll, The Maldives.
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Male scuba diver on shipwreck, Grand Cayman
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Diver, subglacial diving, ice diving, in the frozen Black Sea, a rare phenomenon, last time it occured in 1977, Odessa, Ukraine, Eastern Europe, Europe
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Backup divers and astronauts practicing with a space station module reproduction in a diving basin, European Space Agency, ESA, European Astronaut Center, EAC, Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe
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Artificial coral reef frames for coral recolonisation, and ecosystem creation, Semporna Straits, Sabah, Malaysia, Borneo.
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PHOTO DATE: 09-17-13LOCATION: NBL - Pool Topside SUBJECT: Expedition 40/41 crew members Greg Wiseman and Alexander Gerst during pre-dive briefing, preparations and suitup, then lowering into the water.
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Roman wine Amphora at Le Dramont, France, Mediterranean Sea Archaeological research by diver DRASM (Direction Regionale de l'archeologie Marseille)
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Mike de Gruy operating Nuwt suit, taken on location for BBC 'Pacific Abyss' series, Palau, Western Pacific, April 2007
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Deep Flight Submersible
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Dust mite, illustration.
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Secci disc used to measure water turbidity Galapagos Islands, Ecuador.
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the water for a practice dive in the ocean offshore from Key Largo is astronaut John Herrington. He is commander of the NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations 6 (NEEMO-6) mission team. The others are Nick Patrick, Doug Wheelock, and Tara Ruttley, a biomedical engineer. The NEEMO-6 mission involves exposing an astronaut/scientist crew to a real mission experience in an extreme environment - the NOAA undersea station Aquarius - to prepare for future space flight. Spacewalk-like diving excursions and field-tests on a variety of biomedical equipment are designed to help astronauts living aboard the International Space Station. To prepare for their 10-day stay, the team had dive training twice a day at the Life Support Buoy, anchored above Aquarius.
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Scuba diver exploring parts of the polychrome mosaics situated in the thermal complex of Lacus Baianus, Marine Protected Area of Baia, Naples, Italy, Tyrrhenian Sea
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Scuba diver exploring the serene deep blue sea
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Backup divers and astronauts practicing with a space station module reproduction in a diving basin, European Space Agency, ESA, European Astronaut Center, EAC, the European Astronaut Training Center, Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe
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Diver in Maldive Victory Wreck, North Male Atoll, Maldives, Asia
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Backup divers and astronauts practicing with a space station module reproduction in a diving basin, European Space Agency, ESA, European Astronaut Center, EAC, Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe
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Backup divers and astronauts practicing with a space station module reproduction in a diving basin, European Space Agency, ESA, European Astronaut Center, EAC, Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe
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PHOTO DATE: 03-28-13LOCATION: NBL - Pool Topside SUBJECT: Expedition 39 (Soyuz 37) crew members Rick Mastracchio and Koichi Wakata during pre-dive briefing, preparations and suitup, then lowering into the water.
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Divers Collecting Plankton
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Diver and a Whip coral Ellisella ceratophyta.
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Giant triton based in the water on the sand Antilles
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Divers in the Marie Louise Stolln visitor mine
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Artificial coral reef frames for coral recolonisation, and ecosystem creation, Semporna Straits, Sabah, Malaysia, Borneo.
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Roman wine Amphora at Le Dramont, France, Mediterranean Sea Archaeological research by diver DRASM (Direction Regionale de l'archeologie Marseille)
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Diver in shark cage, Mexico, Pacific Ocean, Guadalupe, Central America
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Scuba diver Cherie Deacon examining an amphora at the wreck site of a Greek galley circa 500-100BC, Alexandria, Egypt
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Tauchgang in der glas klaren, aber sehr kalten Gosaulacke Tauchgang in der glas klaren, aber sehr kalten Gosaulacke ,model released, Symbolfoto Copyright: xZoonar.com/ThomasxAichingerx 704122 ,model released, Symbolfoto ,property released
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Person diving under sea
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Diver looking at tube anemone (Cerianthus membranaceus), Nereo cave, Sardinia.
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White mushroom sponge. From California, Davidson Seamount. Dated 2002
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Backup divers and astronauts practicing with a space station module reproduction in a diving basin, European Space Agency, ESA, European Astronaut Center, EAC, Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe
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DATE: 5-21-13LOCATION: NBL - Pool TopsideSUBJECT: Mike Hopkins during INCR-37 ISS EVA Maintenance 95027 run with astronaut Kathleen Rubins.
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the water for a practice dive in the ocean offshore from Key Largo are the NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations 6 (NEEMO-6) mission team: (left to right) Tara Ruttley, a biomedical engineer, and astronauts Nick Patrick, John Herrington and Doug Wheelock. The NEEMO-6 mission involves exposing an astronaut/scientist crew to a real mission experience in an extreme environment - the NOAA undersea station Aquarius - to prepare for future space flight. Spacewalk-like diving excursions and field-tests on a variety of biomedical equipment are designed to help astronauts living aboard the International Space Station. To prepare for their 10-day stay, the team had dive training twice a day at the Life Support Buoy, anchored above Aquarius.
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Exploring the Sea at Night
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A module of a space station reproduction in a diving basin, backup divers carefully examine the space station, European Space Agency, ESA, European Astronaut Center, EAC, Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the water offshore from Key Largo, site of the NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations 6 (NEEMO-6), are (left to right) Bill Todd, project lead, and Marc Reagan, mission lead. Todd and Lucas are also the underwater videographer and still photographer, respectively, for the mission. The NEEMO-6 team comprises John Herrington, commander, Tara Ruttley, a biomedical engineer, and astronauts Nick Patrick and Doug Wheelock. The NEEMO-6 mission involves exposing an astronaut/scientist crew to a real mission experience in an extreme environment - the NOAA undersea station Aquarius - to prepare for future space flight. Spacewalk-like diving excursions and field-tests on a variety of biomedical equipment are designed to help astronauts living aboard the International Space Station. To prepare for their 10-day stay, the team had dive training twice a day at the Life Support Buoy, anchored above Aquarius.
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S94-29355 (28 Feb 1994) --- Dr. Chiaki Mukai, payload specialist, is assisted by a team of SCUBA-equipped divers during emergency egress training. The STS-65 crew was in the Weightless Environment Training Facility (WET-F) for the bailout training exercise. Dr. Mukai, representing the National Space Development Agency (NASDA), will join six NASA astronauts for the International Microgravity Laboratory (IML-2) mission aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia later this year.
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Diver shining torch on sponges, Maria La Gorda, Cuba.
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Proffessional divers descending with a system
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This Trumpetfish (Aulostomus chinensis) is just passing it's larval stage when it was mostly translucent, Hawaii. Photographed miles off the Big Islan...
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Scuba diver exploring a polychrome mosaics in the thermal complex of Lacus Baianus, Marine Protected Area of Baia, Naples, Italy, Tyrrhenian Sea
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Instrumented fish trap. From California, Davidson Seamount. Dated 2002
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Diver and Wreck of Salem Express South Safaga Red Sea
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Sea Star (Homaxinella balfourensis) covered in anchor ice, anchor ice forms in water less than 33 meters in depth, Antarctica
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Big box jellyfish and snorkeller, Aurita aurita, Jellyfish Lake, Micronesia, Palau, Oceania
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Sailors from U.S. Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command and staff from Naval Oceanographic Office launch an Expendable Bathythermograph (XBT) instrument from Military Sealift Command oceanographic survey ship USNS Pathfinder (T-AGS 60) to collect ocean data and build models of ocean temperature. An XBT is a small probe that is dropped over the side of a ship. As it falls through the water, it measures temperature. Small wires transmit the temperature data back to the ship where it is recorded for further analysis. Because the probe falls through the water at a known rate, the depth of the probe can be inferred from the time of launch. Scientists then plot temperature as a function of depth to create a temperature profile of the water. The Pathfinder is the oldest of six ships in the Pathfinder Class, and is named for Matthew Fontaine Maury, "Pathfinder of the Seas" and "Father of Modern Oceanography and Naval Meteorology." The ship was delivered to the Navy in October of 1994 and
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Humboldt Squid (Dosidicus gigas) young held by squid researcher Scott Cassell, Gulf of California, Baja California, Mexico
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Anchor or mooring line on live Star coral (Diploastrea heliopora), New Britain, Papua New Guinea
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Divers in the old Miltitz lime mine
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U.S. Navy divers are training in the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory at NASAs Johnson Space Center in Houston. Navy divers, Air Force pararescuemen and Coast Guard rescue swimmers practice Orion underway recovery techniques using a test version of the Orion spacecraft. Training will help the team prepare for Underway Recovery Test 5 for Exploration Mission 1 aboard the USS San Diego in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California in October. The Ground Systems Development and Operations Program, along with the U.S. Navy and Lockheed Martin, are preparing the recovery team, hardware and operations to support EM-1 recovery.
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Researcher from the Paul Ricard Oceanographic Institute holding a large mother-of-pearl (Pinna nobilis), found deplanted, in the pond of Diana (Corsica). The mother-of-pearl is then replanted over a third of its height, as it does naturally.
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Diving Professionals from the Barkas of the Oceanographic Research Vintage Hr.Ms. Tydeman (1976-2004)
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