The Birch Aquarium on Thursday opened its next exhibition, Meditation Ocean: Aquarius Reef Base , a multi-sensory art and science installation reimagining the world's only undersea research habitat.

The exhibit at the Birch at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego, is a meditation space "inspired by life beneath the ocean" created by artist Hope Ginsburg and the Meditation Ocean Constellation, a collaborative group of artists, writers, divers, scientists and more.

"Aquarius Reef Base stands on the shoulders of audacious experiments like the Navy's SEALAB and Jacques Cousteau's Conshelf, when humans first tested the idea of living for days or weeks beneath the surface of the ocean," said Megan Dickerson, director of exhibits at Birch Aquarium. "Today, as our ocean and our

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