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Reef Futures

[…] on a large scale. A large boulder brain coral (Colpophyllia natans) on Molasses Reef near Key Largo shows symptoms indicative of stony coral tissue loss disease. The Symposium More than 400 […]

NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations

NASA has been conducting training missions at the Aquarius Reef Base underwater Habitat off Key Largo, Fla since 2001. NASA has staged many projects from Aquarius because the parallels of diving […]

NASA diver performs an underwater training mission

Marching for the Ocean

[…] the wonder it inspires. Similar events will take place from Poland to Palau. In Florida’s Key Largo and Key West, hundreds of volunteer divers with the Coral Restoration Foundation will hold […]

Ocean activists march in Washington, D.C., in support of a variety of marine ecology initiatives on World Oceans Day.

Saturation Diving

[…] diving, there is only one underwater research facility in operation today: Aquarius Reef Base off Key Largo, Fla. Scientists also do work using underwater habitats. Living underwater began in the early […]

A diving bell can be locked out from a saturation chamber and lowered to the seafloor. A moon pool on the underside allows divers to exit and enter the diving bell.

Gaming Introduced Me to a New World 

[…] safety information. Once I passed the online class, we took a family dive trip to Key Largo, Florida, for in-person training. On the first day we learned safety and equipment basics, […]

Teenage male plays game “Subnautica”

The Keys to Our Hearts

[…] least 15 divers would volunteer to participate in the study. The latest trip took place in Key Largo, Fla. After the DAN Institutional Review Board approved the study, we gave interested divers […]

A DAN researcher records an electrocardiogram (EKG) of a diver during a cardiac health study of divers over 40.

Roatán

[…] underwater world I really loved the wrecks … a lot. I’ve dived shallow wrecks in Key Largo quite a bit, but they tend to be kind of broken up by the […]

Blue-and-yellow angelfish swims near coral

Gateway to the Gulf Stream

[…] was caught locally last fall through a partnership with the U.S. Geological Survey and the Key Largo-based nonprofit Reef Environmental Education Foundation (REEF). The fish, which was reported to REEF through […]

A happy shark swims at an aquarium

DAN Member Profile: Charles Beeker

[…] certified until I completed my instructor course in John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park near Key Largo.” Around the same time, Ralph Erickson, the water polo coach at Loyola University and […]