Marine Science Institute | Scientific Diving

Photo of the beach in Port Aransas, Texas

Stein Fredriksen
(University of Oslo)
in Laminaria hyperborea kelp bed, west coast of Norway.
Photograph by Ken Dunton

Standard Operating Procedures for Scientific Diving

THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN

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Dive Manual
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Frank Ernst
UTMSI
Diving Safety Officer

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Dive Members

Benthic (20 m) fauna of the Antarctic Peninsula
(seastars, sponges, bryozoans, coralline red algae).
Photograph by Ken Dunton

Summer shore dive by Lanny Miller (left) and Ken Dunton (right) from Cornwallis Island, Canadian High Arctic to study arctic kelp beds.
Photograph by Ania Banaszak

Ken Dunton measuring frond lengths on tagged Himantothallus plants at ca. 13 m near Hermit Island (Palmer Station, Antarctica).
Photograph by John Heine (Moss Landing)

Kelp bed (Laminaria hyperborea), west coast
of Norway (near Alesund).
Photograph by Ken Dunton

Kelp bed (Laminaria hyperborea), west coast of
Norway (near Alesund).
Photograph by Ken Dunton

Flowering shoots of manatee grass, Syringodirm filiforme,
lower Laguna Madre, Texas.

Photograph by Ken Dunton

Diver checking under-ice incubation to measure
photosynthesis in arctic kelp, Beaufort Sea.
Photograph by Ken Dunton

Arctic Ocean ice dive on Beaufort Sea kelp bed.
Photograph by W.S. Grant

Diver photographing attached biota (soft corals, algae
and sponges) on boulder in arctic kelp bed, Beaufort Sea.
Photograph by Ken Dunton

Updated: Friday, August 29, 2008