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1382                            <div class="wm-description-text__caption NewsFeedRow__description-text-caption">Photographs from the historic Aquascope submersible, now on display at the Mathews Museum in Virginia, offer a glimpse of what life was like at the bottom of the Chesapeake Bay in the 1950s. Scientists at the VIMS &amp; Batten School study these same species today.</div>                        </div>
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