Adventures Beneath the Sea Living in an Underwater Science Station

What would it be like to live sixty feet below the ocean waves?Author Ken Mallory and photographer Brian Skerry found out. They spent a week in the Aquarius underwater laboratory on a coral reef off the Florida Keys. They lived in cramped quarters. They went scuba diving every day-to study the fish of the reef and to use the underwater outhouse. They slept in bunks with the constant crackle of snapping shrimp coming through the shell of their underwater home. Skerry's photographs from the pages of National GeographicMagazine capture the stunning sights of a strange undersea habitat.

Kenneth Mallory is the former Editor-in-Chief of Publishing Programs at Boston's New England Aquarium. He took part in two different Aquarius missions.

Brian Skerry is an award-winning photojournalist and an assignment photographer for National Geographic mazagine.