As the days progress, I realize how fortunate I am to live and work on the bottom of the sea. James and I stay very busy keeping up with everything related to operations. Several hours of each day are spent cleaning and maintaining the outside valves, view ports, cabling, and various other aspects on the habitat exterior. We also have to keep in constant contact with our surface team. This allows us to coordinate diving schedules and daily events that take place down here. The surface support crew also keeps a close eye on us around the clock to make sure everything is operating properly.

We also have a diving medical officer LT Christian T. Petersen, M.D. who is Clinical Director at the Naval Diving and Salvage Training Center, located in Panama City, Florida. We can give him a bit of work down here too. Surprisingly, cuts or scrapes can become infected if not treated aggressively, and our ears are the most vulnerable. Staying wet for as many hours every day means that it's tough to dry out long enough to give minor cuts and scrapes time to heal. So we do our best to keep things clean and dry after every dive - this is an absolute must.

All in all, I can say that this has been a good mission. Th crew down here is in good sprits, and they are getting a lot of research accomplished. As for me, I'm just glad to have the opportunity to be a part of another saturation