Have you ever stood at the edge of an ocean?

Or any body of water rebels?

And wondered about what's below the surface.

There are entire worlds down there, teeming with life, beauty, and mystery.

From the time she was very young. A marine botanist, oceanographer, and conservationist named Sylvia Earl felt drawn to the ocean. As a teen, she lived by the crystal clear waters of the Florida coast and spent her time exploring

the plants and animals that lived there.

And then, she just never stopped.

After she was grown, she spent her time in the ocean deep.

So much time, in fact, that people started calling her her deepness.

Maybe she's even down there right now.

Maybe she's at the Aquarius Reef Base, an underwater laboratory off the coast of the Florida Keys, to explore the Concre Reef.

Let's go deep, with her deepness herself.

Sylvia Ear. Sylvia

Wiggles into her scuba gear in what's known as the wet porch.

The area of the Aquarius reef base aquanauts use to travel between their living space inside and the water outside.

An aquanaut is like an underwater astronaut.

They live underwater doing research or observations for long periods of time.

Now she's all suited up.

She's got on her black and electric blue suit,

a helmet, a double oxygen tank, and swim fins on her feet.

Sylvia sits with her legs dangling into the moon pool.

This is a cutout in the floor that lets the aquanauts enter the ocean.

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