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Across 3. ______ tanks contain air for me to breath underwater. 6. _____________ at work: Diving in underwater caves for new forms of life. 7. These caves have zero light and can be 20 _____ long. 8. Many cave ________________ can be found only in one cave and nowhere else on Earth. 10. I have a chance to ____________ new sea animals. 12. _________________ are sea animals with shells, like crabs and shrimps. 14. The first and most important rules of cave diving is you never, ever dive __________. 15. We're also finding cave animals that are related to each other but live on opposite sides of the ___________ Ocean. 17. I will take that sort of ________and its challenges any day. 22. I have been to Australia, to the ________________ Sea between Europe and Asia, and Hawaii. 24. Our ______________ is important, especially for endangered speciens and protecting the environment. 26. I study _________________ caves and the sea animals that live in them. 27. I've also been to the ______________which are islands near Florida.

Down 1. I mainly search for new ______ of life 2. Most of the animals I find are white crustaceans without _______. 4. Tom Iliffe teaches about sea life at Texas A&M _____________ in Texas. 5. Our team also discovered the deepest underwater cave in the the U.S. and it is in __________. 9. We're also finding out how the environments ________ animals in saltwater caves. 11. The experience can be ________________. 13. Many university professors perform _____________ in labs. 16. Accidents happen when divers don't follow the rules or they don't have enough __________ and experience in cave diving. 18. This kind of __________________ is extremely dangerous. 19. They know that safety and being ____________ is important to me. 20. My team has discovered completely new _____________. 21. I might dive in a cave that is a deep as a building with nine __________. 23. My diving partners and I often ___________ caves no one else has see before. 25. Some students are looking into how high the ________ was during the Ice Age.