Rachel Lance is an American biomedical engineer and writer, focusing on the physiological effects of submarine pressure on people. She is an Assistant Consulting Professor in the Department of Anesthesiology at

Duke University Duke University is a Private university, private research university in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day city of Trinity, North Carolina, Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1 ...

. Lance earned her

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and

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in biomedical engineering at the

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. She then worked as a biomedical engineer for the US Navy, designing equipment for underwater operations.Lance, Rachel, ''In the Waves: My Quest to Solve the Mystery of a Civil War Submarine'', Dutton, 2020. ISBN 9781524744151. Following her work at the Navy, she earned her Ph.D. at Duke in 2016. She is the author of two books, ''In the Waves: My Quest to Solve the Mystery of a Civil War Submarine'' and ''Chamber Divers: The Untold Story of the D-Day Scientists Who Changed Special Operations Forever''.Lance, Rachel, ''Chamber Divers: The Untold Story of the D-Day Scientists Who Changed Special Operations Forever'', Dutton, 2024. ISBN 9780593184936.

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