Chris Borne
Host Technician: Underwater Habitat-AQUARIUS
Scientists often need to spend many hours scuba diving to conduct research on
coral reefs and marine life. The underwater research laboratory AQUARIUS
allows scientists to live underwater, allowing them a more intense and
productive period of research. Chris Borne's job is to train aquanauts
(scientists living in the AQUARIUS) and staff in advanced diving techniques
to ensure every that every mission is safe. A saturation mission takes more
than 20,000 person-hours to successfully run. Borne's team is made up of
commercial saturation divers, emergency divers, medical technicians and
engineers.
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Gene Carl
Feldman
(gene@seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov)
(301) 286-9428
Todd Carlo Viola,
JASON Foundation for Education
(todd@jason.org)