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Dr. Craig Cary, of the University of Delaware
College of Marine Studies, is shown working in the submarine Alvin.
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Students from Talley Middle School in Wilmington, Delaware, talk by phone to Dr. Cary as he is
working on the seafloor in the submarine Alvin.
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| On January 13, nine classrooms in Delaware, one in New Jersey, and one in California participated in a historic
conference call with Dr. Craig Cary, University of Delaware marine biologist and chief scientist of the Extreme
2000 expedition. With help from AT&T Teleconference Service, the students spoke live with Dr. Cary as he was
working in the submarine Alvin at the bottom of the Sea of Cortés, about a mile-and-a-half below
the surface. It was Alvin's first dive of the new millennium. |
Click on the school name below to hear the questions each school asked and Dr. Cary's response from the sub Alvin.
The first voice you will hear in each call is Alvin Expedition Leader Pat Hickey (right), aboard the research
vessel Atlantis in the Sea of Cortés. Hickey, from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, patched
each call through to the submarine working more than a mile below the ship on the seafloor. While he was not in
the sub on this day, Hickey is one of a handful of individuals who are certified to serve as pilots onboard Alvin.
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