Unknown to many, this is Florida International University’s Aquarius Reef Base — the centerpiece of FIU's Medina Aquarius Program. It is the world’s only underwater research laboratory.

NASA is sending three astronauts and a Cincinnati doctor to test new space medicine concepts and extravehicular techniques in a unique underwater laboratory off the Florida coast. NASA astronaut Lee ...

MIAMI (AP) — A South Florida university is taking over a Florida Keys underwater research laboratory that had been set to close because of federal budget cuts, officials said Tuesday. Florida ...

IN THE OCEAN OFF KEY LARGO, Fla. (AP) – Ocean explorer Sylvia Earle sported one Rolex dive watch on each wrist as she slipped beneath the balmy waters of the Florida Keys for a weeklong stay at an ...

Key Largo, Fla. — The June mission of NOAA’s Aquarius Undersea Laboratory will include NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson, who lived and conducted research aboard the International Space Station for 190 ...

At the One World One Ocean website, researchers have been constantly posting the newest updates on what could be their final stay at the last undersea research station. The lab, located 60 feet below ...

KEY LARGO, Fla. — A nine-day mission that began Monday in the world’s only permanent working undersea laboratory is like living in a fishbowl in more ways than one: Anyone with an Internet connection ...

MIAMI (AP) — A South Florida congresswoman says the government’s plan to end manned ocean exploration will cause “irreparable damage to vital ocean investigations.” U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, ...