Nation IN BRIEF : FLORIDA : Aquanaut Breaks Undersea Record
A NASA aquanaut broke an undersea habitation record over the Fourth of July weekend after spending 60 days in a scuba divers’ lodge submerged in a Florida Keys lagoon. Richard Presley, 33, a hydroponics engineer from Key Largo, had been at the bottom of the Emerald Lagoon since May 6. He was part of a NASA experiment on conditions astronauts would face during long space missions. The Jules’ Undersea Lodge, once an undersea laboratory, is a steel and acrylic bubble. It has three portholes and three chambers with bunk beds.
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