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National Geographic : 1979 May
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Double-edged tool, the Star II submersible serves both Universi ty of Hawaii scientists and Maui Divers of Hawaii, Ltd., which uses it to gather precious coral. The craft rides piggyback on a special vehicle (left) that is first towed by a mother ship and then sunk to 60 feet, where the sub can be launched and recovered in calm water. After targeting a colony, pilot Bartko uses a cutting blade and mechani cal arm to slice and maneuver the coral into a wire basket. He makes a spectacular remote-control pho tograph of a newly discovered spe cies of Calyptrophora (below), with a deep-sea camera mounted outside the submersible. In an eerie void Star II glides down the outer rim of Molokini, a sunken volcano (right), on an ex ploratory dive. NationalGeographic, May 1979 onUInr oAnl Il unoIrnm. nn UL= ,, nRI IuN/ LkUVrrnl a nrr"Cuv -) 726
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