The Cambrian Age occurred about 500 million years ago and lasted for about 80 million years, during which all life was confined to water. It is also the first geological age from which we have recovered a good fossil record.
The most familiar fossils of the Cambrian Period are the Trilobites, the bug-like ancestors of today’s crustaceans. It is this reason that an image of Trilobite fossils is used by the Foundation.
Divers ready to deploy with an experimental dredge Assembly and operation of the dredge is discussed Divers are picked up after a dive Tune-ups Continue August 7, 1999 – another fine diving day. We continued with the same procedures for our tune-up dives with two dives for each team to…
Terrence Tysall prepares to dive Divers ready to deploy Unconscience diver drill Tune-ups and Drills Continue August 6, 1999 turned out to be another excellent day for diving off the Outer Banks of North Carolina. The relatively calm conditions continued today, and we made our way out to the Lansing.…
Deploying divers offthe R/V Cape Fear Support teams wait for divers to surface Divers return after a successful dive Tune-ups August 5, 1999, was a much better day than the last couple. After two days of high winds and thunderstorms, Mother Nature calmed down today, and we headed out to…
Rescue on the chase boat Rescue on the Cape Fear Diver is placed on a back board for transport NURC/UNCW recompression chamber Diver is placed in the chamber The chamber operators Tune-ups and Emergency Drills To begin this phase of the operation, most of the NOAA and NURC/UNCW divers are…