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A woman sits on the beach reading a book.
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Ocean Reading

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The Curasub departs for a deep sea dive, up to 1,000 feet off the island of Curaçao, where this sub is located.
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Curasub Sets Off

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an underwater volcanic eruption
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Submarine Volcanoes Erupting

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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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Two nurse sharks hover over a baited cage
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It’s Not Just the Core that Tells the Hole Story

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A spiraled diatom with spines.
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The Ocean Under the Microscope: Images from Nikon Small World

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a medicine bottle with an image of the ocean
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Medicines from the Sea

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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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Orange and red deep-sea corals.
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Aleutian Coral Reef

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 Scientist Martha Nizinski holds a specimen of a fan sponge (Phakellia sp.) collected at a deep-sea coral study site off the coast of South Carolina.    
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Fan Sponge

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A large, black instrument is hauled onto a ship's deck by researchers wearing hard hats and life vests.
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What the Big Picture Can Teach Us About Tiny Ocean Creatures

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This computer screen image shows views of each sonar beam and the path being mapped by the ship.
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Multibeam Sonar Screen

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