About Aquarius

How to Participate

• Overview
• Webcast schedule
• About Aquarius
• Technical requirements

Teacher's Guide

• Overview
• Student field guide
• Before the mission
• During the mission
• After the mission

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Aquarius is an underwater ocean laboratory located in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary. The laboratory is deployed three and half miles offshore, at a depth of 60 feet, next to spectacular coral reefs. Scientists live in Aquarius during ten-day missions using saturation diving to study and explore our coastal ocean. Aquarius is owned by NOAA and is operated by the NOAA Undersea Research Program's Undersea Research Center at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington.

Information about the Aquarius and past science missions, aquanaut profiles, photographs, a user manual, and more are available from UNC-Wilmington's NOAA's Aquarius website.

Aquarius images are copyright ©1999, University of North Carolina at Wilmington. All rights reserved. Further reproduction prohibited.