Jim Buckley: Mission Day 12: Friday, April 14th, 2006
I just finished day eleven’s journal and here it’s day 12 already.I did a clean-up of the area I could reach with my umbilical. Lots of broken fishing line and hooks. Even though this is a research site and the general public should not be fishing or diving in the area, there sure is a lot of debris.
Superlite-17 ops went fairly smooth today. Dave and Nicole had the morning dives, building a structure called “Waterlab”. This is to simulate a tower that might have to be built on the moon or Mars someday to aid in extending the horizon for communications.
Ron and Tim had the afternoon dives, using Cobratac and Linkquest, running a predetermined grid tracking exercise. They were given waypoints and had to navigate to each site using special tracking equipment.
Ross got the afternoon ship’s husbandry. for a few hours each day the techs need to keep on top of cleaning the plumbing, zincs, valves, and cabling. Go a few days without the cleaning and the marine growth can cover an area.
Once again thanks to Topside for all the support.