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You can explore the Curasub from your computer! Inspect, launch, board and recover to get an idea of what it's like to mann an underwater submersible.
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Tour the Curasub!

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Walter Adey and the NMNH coral reef tank
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Walter Adey and Coral Reef Tank

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Hastigerinella digitata's many spines support sticky, hair-like “fishing lines” made from cytoplasm (the living part of a cell – mostly fluid, salts and proteins) that entangle prey.
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Tiny, but Deadly

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Like a typical jelly, the tentacles of Haliscera biglowi trail behind it as it moves, causing water flow to push small organisms into the path of the jelly’s deadly stinging grip.
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Stinging Grip

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Bathochordaeus stygius are filter feeders closely related to sea squirts in the phylum Chordata, the same phylum to which humans belong.
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Mucus Home

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Sea squire illustrations from Ernst Haeckel.
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Sea Squirts

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Starfish—marine invertebrates of the phylum Echinodermata—are famous for their ability to shed limbs as a means of defense and then regenerate the sacrificed part.
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Haeckel Starfish

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Thumbnail of a Sperm Whale seen from a submersible.
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Close Encounters with a Sperm Whale

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Magnified jellyfish stingers.
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Slow Motion Jellyfish Sting

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A color coordinated hurricane basins table
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Hurricane Basins Table

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"Ocean sunfish" by Mark Harris
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Ocean Sunfish

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Mangrove roots are a complex habitat that function as a protective nursery for juvenile fish.
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Underwater Mangrove Roots

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