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Safety Comes First for UConn’s Director of Scientific Diving

His job has a simple bottom line. Or rather, line to the bottom. Everyone who goes down must come up. But for Jeffrey Godfrey, director of scientific diving for UConn’s marine sciences programs in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, getting to the bottom and back up again requires planning, planning, and more planning. Training and more training. Testing and re-testing of equipment. And even calling the dive off when things don’t look exactly right.