The best way to study life beneath the waves is to live there. Mark Schrope describes his experiences in the world's longest-running undersea laboratory.
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Mark Schrope is a writer in Melbourne, Florida.
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Schrope, M. Ocean research: The lab at the bottom of the sea. Nature 457, 141–143 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/457141a
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