Part 1: A Tale of Two Subs
In some ways, this is a story of two submarines: Johnson
Sea-Link, a nimble and versitile craft that carries its pilot and chief
scientist in a 6-foot acrylic sphere and NR-1, the U.S. Navy's smallest
nuclear submarine; rather ponderous compared with Sea Link, but able to
stay on the bottom for weeks.
Together, these two platforms have allowed scientists to
explore and investigate the continental slope of the Gulf of Mexico. In
the past ten years, this work has uncovered life-forms and geological features
that challenge the imagination. |
The submersible Johnson Sea Link is exploring the edge of a brine
pool originally discovered by submarine NR-1 in 1989. |
