Sentences with word «aquanaut»

Included in your admission: access to behind the scenes areas, standards based activities in Aquanaut Adventure: A Discovery Zone, and admission to all Georgia Aquarium galleries and presentations on a first come, first served basis.

SEALAB by Ben Hellwarth In the 1960s, as the underwater exploits of Jacques Cousteau dazzled the world, U.S. Navy aquanauts lived for weeks in pressurized capsules hundreds of feet under the sea — test runs, Navy researchers hoped, for long - term human habitats on the ocean floor.

It was followed a few years later by the 60 - foot - long, cylindrical Sealab III, which was designed so a dozen aquanauts at a time could conduct experiments at a depth of 600 feet, a giant leap out onto the continental shelf.

A research - oriented project called SeaBase1 aims to tap the ecotourism market by giving recreational divers a chance to live as aquanauts and work alongside scientists, lending a hand with tasks like reef restoration.

The new habitat, looking like a cross between a submarine and a railway tank car, accommodated three separate teams of 10 aquanauts for two weeks each.

As an alternate aquanaut, Koblick did not get to stay inside the habitat but was in the water every day to help carry out Tektite science projects, especially chasing down lobsters to attach color - coded tracking tags.

Chamberland's first expedition, Atlantica 1, planned for the summer of 2014, aims to send three aquanauts on a 100 - day underwater mission, longer than any yet recorded, to test «systems intended for permanent human residence of the undersea world.»

Koblick himself was a Chalupa aquanaut in the spring of 1974 when his mission almost came to a tragic end.

Blockbuster - moviemaker - turned - aquanaut James Cameron's solo dive in the Pacific to the Mariana Trench's Challenger Deep site last month opens up a vast, under - explored region of the world's oceans to researchers.

Only five out of the seven routes have to be completed in order to receive Georgia Aquarium Aquanaut certification.

Fancy a spot of deep sea fishing aboard the MV Aquanaut an 8 meter alloy boat with twin 150hp Mercury outboards.

On one of La Chalupa's first missions, in 1972, scientist - aquanauts surveyed nutrients and bottom sediments and described algal populations, identifying some 30 new species.

His fellow aquanauts had managed to drag him up through the entry hatch in the floor of La Chalupa and resuscitate him.

But the nascent quest to equip aquanauts to live in «inner space,» as some called the vast undersea realm, never got anything close to the billions of dollars pumped into launching the Apollo astronauts into outer space, birthing an industry and defining the global zeitgeist.

So he went looking for entrepreneurial solutions to creating underwater habitats: school bus — size seafloor shelters that give aquanauts a pressurized, climate - controlled base, just as the International Space Station gives astronauts a hospitable home in orbit.

The first Sealab aquanauts were deployed to the seabed southwest of Bermuda for 10 days at a depth of nearly 200 feet.

This time Koblick got his wish: a shot at being a bona fide aquanaut who lived under the sea.

They also tested a saturated aquanaut's ability to reach depths down to 300 feet, extending the possibilities for exploring from a habitat placed at 100 feet.

«The charge on us is to get her built, and once she's built we feel very confident that users will pay the operational costs,» says Chris Cooper, vice president of SeaBase1 and the son of the project's founder Richard Cooper, a former Sealab and Tektite aquanaut and a longtime University of Connecticut professor of marine sciences who died last year.

Using more than a dozen instruments placed around the habitat, including a first - of - its - kind underwater mass spectrometer that tracks fluctuations in key gases up and down the ocean waters, aquanauts watch readouts in real time on computer screens.

In Key Largo, aquanauts roam the reefs and a cadre of true believers design new outposts for life in the deep.

With specially pressurized containers, a DEEPSEA CHALLENGER aquanaut might even be able to bring living deep - sea microbes to the surface for study.

Students will become certified Aquanauts during this Learning Journey as they learn about the precious resource right in our backyard — the Great Lakes.

• When an island is «completely not hit by a tsunami», a new investigation begins for the daring aquanauts, the Nekton family.

Georgia Aquarium educators will be stationed throughout Aquanaut Adventure and in our classrooms to facilitate a variety of standards - based activities for students K - 12 that will allow your students to investigate the scientific process by making observations, applying knowledge, and drawing conclusions.

During this program, home school students and their accompanying adults will have exclusive access to our interactive Aquanaut Adventure: A Discovery Zone for a unique self - paced experience.

The smaller Aquanaut holds 8 - 11 divers plus crew.

Abzu — sorry, but I refuse to write the name in all capital letters and I have no idea how to put that ridiculous caret over the U — isn't Aquanaut's Holiday.

Really cool, reminds me of an old PS game I played in the 95 or so called Aquanaut's Holiday.

Get started with a little Aquanaut's Holiday: Hidden Memories (in English!)

The group hopes to raise the $ 35 million it will need to create the habitat, a boxy structure that would accommodate 25 aquanauts at depths up to 60 feet.

As Aquanauts - in - training, participants will explore fresh water and marine habitats, scientific research, how animals thrive in extreme environments, and even catch a glimpse into what it's like to have a career in aquatic and marine sciences.

The two met during Tektite, and Monney later signed on as a Chalupa aquanaut.

Before setting his sights once again on the far - off moon Pandora for the next Avatar adventure, filmmaker and aquanaut James Cameron has bequeathed arguably his greatest technological accomplishment to science.

Participants also have the chance to become a certified Georgia Aquarium Aquanaut, or Aquarium Scientist, after completing their journey!

An hours drive to Apollo Bay and you can experience deep sea fishing aboard the MV Aquanaut an 8 meter alloy boat with twin 150hp Mercury outboards.

Access to Aquanaut Adventure: A Discovery Zone is included in admission with the purchase of a General Admission ticket.

Cousteau's was little more than a cylindrical tank, shorter than a school bus but with beds and amenities enough to accommodate two aquanauts for a week.

Breweries including (but not limited to): Revolution Brewing, Aquanaut, New Belgium, Gambrinus, Sam Adams, Brooklyn Brewery, Urban Chestnut, Half Acre, Firestone Walker & more!

We were sent a Super Undies Pull - on Potty Training Pants in exchange for a review in the lavender shade called «Purple Pixie,» but there are 4 other colors available including: «Aquanaut,» which is blue, «Fearsome Frog,» which is green, «Cupcake Queen,» which is pink and «Spaceman Pete,» which is orange.

The habitat's depth was about 45 feet, a fraction of the 600 feet or more that Sealab had been aiming for — so less complexity was needed for the pressurized gas recipe and the aquanauts» eventual decompression.

At 43 feet in length, the tanklike Aquarius, dispatched to the Virgin Islands, could accommodate six aquanauts to depths of 120 feet.

The four aquanauts were lying in their bunks, looking out a port window as big around as a manhole cover, sipping rum and Cokes — the soda was flat because of their pressurized surroundings.

Instead of weightlessness, the aquanaut would have to endure, among other things, artificial atmospheres with gaseous mixtures different from what we breathe on land, maintained at significantly higher pressures than those at sea level to match the water pressure at depth.

Koblick saw his chance to become an aquanaut.