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Article: Breathe Deep
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- Honolulu Star - Bulletin
- Article date:
- April 3, 1996
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By Greg AmbroseStar-Bulletin
Peering into the chilling black in a New Guinea cave mouth that started 300 feet below the ocean's surface and extended an extra 100 feet, Hawaii researchers knew their space-age diving equipment was letting them view something no one had seen before.
The new gear allows divers to take a self-contained breathing system deeper, and stay down longer, than even scuba divers breathing exotic gas mixtures.
While testing the new rebreather in Hawaiian waters, University of Hawaii ichthyology Ph.D candidate Richard Pyle and ...