Day 6
Well it’s the morning of Day Six and science is rolling along. We woke this morning to find that the visibility outside the habitat got worse over night. Brian went out to sample before dawn and had a green - murky swim out to our site. Interestingly, the mass spectrometer is giving us some notably different readings in conjunction with the green/new watermass, so we may be able to get a cool science story out of all this murk. Even with the lowered visibility, the outside lights on the habitat still provide a show. Last night Jim was out doing a midnight survey and came back to find the resident Goliath Groupers slurping up yellow-tails in the lights. Every day there’s a new sight to see down here - it’s a whole new reality from what you’re used to. Science wise the last few days have gone pretty smoothly, we have had a few small instrument problems, but with the help of our top-notch topside crew we got everything back up and running without losing much data. The dayboat crew is so good we even got a delivery of homemade brownies yesterday - a blessing. So a big thanks Sarah - the brownies were awesome! Daily deliveries of supplies are not needed, but they sure are appreciated as are the people who help us move the science along. It would be a completely different mission if we didn’t have the excellent support team that we do.
Patrick Gibson, aquanaut
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