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Kevin Peters, graduate research assistant, shows us what it takes to keep warm and safe while scuba diving in the waters of Antarctica.

Peters is part of a three-person team that dives as deep as 130 feet below the surface to sample sea sponges, corals and tunicates, a family that includes the sea squirt. Even completely suited up, at this depth with temperatures as low as 28 degrees, the team can remain in the water for only an hour.

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