Mission Journal 6 — Topside Report: Jim Buckley: Day 5: Friday, July 18th, 2003
I had the privilege of visiting the habitat this afternoon for 90 min while the two inside techs (Coop and Roger) went out and did a little recon for places to set up new waystations for future work sites.
As always, Mark, Jo, Janet and Kristen were in rare form. Buzzers, a mask, and who knows what else they have, all to entertain themselves and the techs. Maybe entertain isn’t the correct term. I took them ice cream (Ben&Jerry’s Cookie Dough and New York Fudge) and some homemade cheese cake that Kea made.
My 90 minutes flew by quickly. During my visit we potted spent SodaSorb (used for removing carbon dioxide from the habitat’s atmosphere) up to the surface, added 300 gallons of water, answered VHF calls, and checked on the two divers out at 110 fsw. I had little time to chat with the aquanauts. We did manage to get a few photos. Thanks for being such great aquanaut hosts.