Aquarius Reef Base
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The Aquarius Reef Base is an underwater habitat located 5.4 mi off Key Largo in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary, Florida, United States. It is the world's only undersea research laboratory
Aquarius on Conch Reef, off the Florida Keys
Another view of the habitat
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Moon pool
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A moon pool or moonpool is an equipment deployment and retrieval feature used by marine drilling platforms, drillships, diving support vessels, fishing vessels, marine research vessels, underwater exp
Aquarius Reef Base
…refill their scuba tanks during dives. Aquarius consists of three compartments. Access to the water is made via the wet porch, a chamber equipped with a moon pool, which keeps the air pressure inside the wet porch the same as the water pressure at that depth (ambient pressure), about 2.6 atmospheres, through…
Underside of the Research Vessel Western Flyer, showing its moon pool between the two hulls
NEEMO 13 Crew in the wet porch/moon pool of the Aquarius habitat