Bahamas

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RADIO EXPEDITIONS Co-host Lynn Neary takes you on a magical underwater tour of a delicate and endangered habitat: coral reefs off Lee Stocking Island in the Bahamas.

Plunge down 1,000 feet in a submarine hardly bigger than a dining room table. A pilot guides the tiny craft along an upper reef that's like the summit of a gigantic underwater mountain.

Later, at the Carribean Marine research Center, you'll meet one of the world's leading undersea explorers, Dr. Sylvia Earle. Her decades studying sea life have led to growing concern about declines in ocean biodiversity.

"Sylvia Earle believes there's only one way to truly understand the ocean: you have to dive right into it! Infected by Earle's enthusiasm, I put my fears on hold as I climbed inside the little yellow submarine that would carry me hundreds of feet below the surface of the sea." -Lynn Neary

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