Sentences with phrase «as aquanauts»

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.

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.

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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.

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.

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.

The wood - paneled walls around Koblick's office are filled with memorabilia that attest to his years as an undersea pioneer and a genuine player in a decades - long quest to turn ordinary divers into «aquanauts,» the name applied to those equipped to live on the seabed, much as crews launched into space get to be called astronauts.

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.

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

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

The «vacation game» came into its own as a genre beginning around 1999, with it games like the Aquanaut's Holiday series, Kita he, Boku no Natsuyasumi, Dead or Alive Xtreme Beach Volleyball, and others.