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Working below the Surface

(Image credit: S. Dollar/OAR/National Undersea Research Program (NURP); Univ. of Hawaii)

Divers transport a benthic chamber used to measure productivity and respiration.

What Lies Beneath

(Image credit: OAR/National Undersea Research Program (NURP))

Divers use a suction sampler to collect animals living in the sand under the sea.

Weather or Not

(Image credit: OAR/National Undersea Research Program (NURP))

Coring into a coral reef to discover clues to past climate changes.

Check Point

(Image credit: Reese/OAR/National Undersea Research Program (NURP))

Diver counts of reef fish.

Swim Buddies

(Image credit: Kalie Tsapis / NOAA: National Marine Sanctuaries)

A sanctuary research coordinator and juvenile manta ray swim side-by-side in the ocean.

Gotcha!

(Image credit: Reese/OAR/National Undersea Research Program (NURP))

Captured reef fish are tagged and released.

Traveling in Packs

(Image credit: OAR/National Undersea Research Program (NURP))

Diver observes school of jacks patrolling the reef.

A New Perspective

(Image credit: OAR/National Undersea Research Program (NURP))

French angelfish looks larger than observing diver.

Cruising the Deep Waters

(Image credit: OAR/National Undersea Research Program (NURP))

Bubbles frame diver cruising a coral reef.

Deep Dive

(Image credit: Beardsley/OAR/National Undersea Research Program (NURP))

Snorkeler retrieves ghost traps from the grip of a submersible.

Ocean Treasures

(Image credit: OAR/National Undersea Research Program (NURP))

Diver carries samples to the surface.

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