Extreme 2004: Exploring the Deep Frontier Search

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Depths of Discovery Tools of the Trade Submersible Alvin R/V Atlantis
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Each cell in our bodies contain a DNA code of over 3 billion letters. Sequencing DNA means figuring out what order the letters appear in. How do scientists sort it all out? Find out more here.

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Image of DNA sequencing. Click here to learn more.

Check in with Michael League and Karen Romano Young, our shipboard education coordinators, for a daily account of the expedition.

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A Celera lab technician works with a DNA sequencing machine. Photos courtesy of www.GenomeNews Network.org/J. Craig Venter Institute.

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Oceans of Exploration
In the quest to explore the ocean's depths, a number of novel diving suits and chambers have been developed to enable aquanauts to work in the tremendous pressure, extreme cold, and darkness of the deep. Shown here is the diving suit "Tritonia," which explored the wreck of the Lusitania in 1937. It was the forerunner of the diving suit known as the "Jim suit." ?
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