Corey Seymour: Mission Day 2: Tuesday, June 13th, 2006
After a great first day of diving and good food, we enjoyed a “change of the guard” as the sea life changed from the fast swimming, always moving day shift to the night shift. I had long night with little sleep due to the constant pressure changes of 4-6 ft seas. That plus the three Goliath Groupers that dine outside the bunk room viewport. They are incredible creatures! I believe the only predator that is constant is the school of barracuda that stay nearby. They are eating day and night.The dive today was again approximately 3 hours of minor work to the habitat’s anchoring gear and a large amount of cleaning on the gazebo deck. Our rebreathers were flawless again today and as before, the fish are not threatened and will allow you to observe them up close. The rebreather is so quiet they pay me no attention. I have observed that when doing heavy work the rebreather is easily overworked and if you are working in an upward looking posture it makes it very difficult to breath and work due to the nature of gases and pressure. I dove MDV’s dry suit today and it was dry for the entire dive. The suit is much more comfortable than mine, but not as thermally protective as Tim’s.
Sea life today consisted of the normal grouper, various snapper, snook, parrot fishes, angel fishes, tarpon, permit, stingray, eagle ray, moray eel, and countless other smaller fishes. The reef has an incredible variety of marine life and I don’t dare try to look up all of the different species.
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