Professors teach from Keys underwater habitat

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Published October 4, 2014 7:01am ET

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Professors teach from Keys underwater habitat — In this photo provided by the Florida Keys News Bureau, Roane State Community College adjunct professor Jessica Fain, 25, left, and associate professor Bruce Cantrell, 63, enter the Jules Undersea Lodge habitat to begin a 73-day "Classroom Under the Sea" project Friday, Oct. 3, 2014, 25 feet beneath the surface of a Florida Keys lagoon in Key Largo, Fla. Besides teaching weekly online marine science classes, via YouTube, the Tennessee instructors hope to break a record for underwater habitation currently held by Rick Presley when he resided at Jules for 69 days and 19 minutes in 1992. (AP Photo/Florida Keys News Bureau, Bob Care) | Bob Care

KEY LARGO, Fla. (AP) — Two Tennessee college educators have submerged in an underwater habitat in a Florida Keys lagoon to teach online classes and attempt to break a record for the longest human underwater habitation.

Roane State Community College associate professor Bruce Cantrell, 63, and adjunct professor Jessica Fain, 25, dove 25 feet to Jules Undersea Lodge Friday.

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