Day 4: What a beautiful day!
The scientists are all out at their site and my fellow habitat technician Mark is out on hooka doing husbandry on the habitat. Alone at last. Most of the time so far there has been someone else in here with me. I love their company but its unique to be in here by myself. The visibility is great and I look forward to my hooka dive later today. Yesterday while out diving the water began to get very cloudy even though it was only about 4:30pm. Closer inspection showed that frond oysters,a very common bi-valve on the habitat, were spawning! Clouds of red eggs and white sperm were being expelled making it look like Aquarius was smoking. There is so much marine life here on and around Aquarius that you never know what you will see! Well gotta go, divers coming back.
More later.
Otto Rutten
Aquarius Reef Base, Associate Director, habitat technician and aquanaut
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