It’s decompression day, and that means that everything is a notch busier today. Even with the amazing extension of available bottom time we’ve had all week, there is always more work that we could do and would like to do, and so with our last morning of available dive time we were out early. Despite our hurrying around both in the Habitat and during the dives, life on the reef continues at its usual pace. At first light dense schools of baitfish were circling Aquarius being chased by jacks and snook. Several small squid were still out from what was probably a night of foraging in the vicinity of the Habitat lights, while trying to avoid being eaten themselves by larger predators. On our early dive we were looking up at the surface and we could easily see the overhead buoy. Strange to think that we will be swimming up there tomorrow morning. The barrier between the world at the surface and the world on the bottom seems stronger than ever. It will take a full 17 hours of gradual decompression just to safely relieve the pressure of only 50 feet and all the ongassing that's occurred due to saturation.