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Aquanauts experience awe-inspiring ‘underview effect’

Aquanauts experience awe-inspiring ‘underview effect’

Like astronauts’ “overview effect,” a dramatic feeling of awe takes hold on extended seafloor stays

Mark Patterson was living underwater for a week inside the Hydrolab, a white, cylindrical research station at the bottom of the ocean in the eastern Caribbean. It was 1984, and he was on his first of what would become many missions involving saturation diving: descending to the seafloor and spending…

Scientific American

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