How to Use aquanaut in a Sentence

aquanaut

noun
  • As astronauts circled the Earth, aquanauts moved into seafloor labs.
    Bill Gourgey, Popular Science, 2 July 2026
  • The next year, in Conshelf II, aquanauts spent a month at 36 feet in the Red Sea.
    Bill Gourgey, Popular Science, 2 July 2026
  • Patterson was one of the 14 aquanauts who discussed their experiences of awe for a study in Environment and Behavior.
    Susan Cosier, Scientific American, 6 June 2026
  • And in 1965, Conshelf III aquanauts spent three weeks at 325 feet, near Nice, France, in the Mediterranean.
    Bill Gourgey, Popular Science, 2 July 2026
  • Of astronauts and aquanauts That same year, ocean explorer Jacques-Yves Cousteau used saturation diving to launch his Continental Shelf Station experiments, or Conshelf, off Marseille, France, in the Mediterranean Sea.
    Bill Gourgey, Popular Science, 2 July 2026

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