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Two divers prepare to explore the Lusitania shipwreck in 1935.
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Divers Explore the Lusitania Shipwreck

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"Barely a room onboard escaped being turned into a part of the sequencing laboratory," wrote Rob Edwards in a blog post about doing genomic sequencing at sea.
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The Trials of Ship-Bound Research

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Cooks Bay in Moorea is one of the places that researchers are scouring in their quest to collect one of every life form big enough to pick up with tweezers.
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Cooks Bay, Moorea

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Two scientists peer out into the ocean from inside the Curasub, a 5-person submersible
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Inside the Submarine

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Dr. Brendan Roark discusses different methods of sampling deep-sea corals with undergraduate students at Texas A&M University.
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Training Future Scientists

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Ocean scientists inside the Johnson-Sea-Link submersible travel to deep-sea coral ecosystems up to 3,000 m (9,843 ft) below the ocean’s surface.
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Johnson Sea Link Submersible

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Scientist Martha Nizinski holds a squat lobster (Eumunida picta) collected at the Lophelia reefs off Cape Lookout, North Carolina.    
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Squat Lobster from Reefs of North Carolina

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Submarine pilot Bruce Brandt secures ARMS to the outside of the submersible Curasub so it can deploy ARMS on the seafloor.
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ARMS Deployment from a Submarine

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The Smithsonian's Dr. Carole Baldwin uses a wall diagram that shows genetic lineages among Starksia blennies (a type of reef fish) to explain how the seven new species differ from previously known species.
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Wall Chart of New Fish Species

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Divers deep into the cold waters beneath the ice.
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Diving Beneath the Ice

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This radio device is used to track North Atlantic right whales. Suction cups hold the device to a whale's back, where it records data such as depth, water, temperature, and underwater sounds.
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Whale Tracking Device

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Dr. Clyde Roper in a one-person submersible.
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One-Person Submersible

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