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Nature 436, 908-909 (18 August 2005) | doi:10.1038/436908a; Published online 17 August 2005

Deep-sea biology:  The life aquatic

Emma Marris1

  1. Washington correspondent for Nature.

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Cindy Lee Van Dover likes nothing better than to be on the ocean floor. Emma Marris meets the unconventional biologist who has devoted her life to studying the exotic ecosystems of the deep.

Some 2,300 metres under the sea, Richard Lutz was beginning to wonder whether he should worry. The deep-sea submersible Alvin in which he was riding had come to a shuddering halt.

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