|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 |
 |
||||||||||||
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
|
 |
|||||||||||||
|
Journal 14 - Sarah Lee: Day 4: Thursday, June 13, 2002
We are in for the night, because the visibility has dropped to roughly pea soup, and there is a lot of surge anyway. There is a school of silversides (bait fish) outside the 'dining room' window. It's mesmerizing to watch them schooling, at perfect angles to each other, splitting to avoid a predator as it darts in, mouth gaping. They almost look like air bubbles if you catch them out of the corner of your eye. The larval settlement experiment is going well. We are investigating what substrate larvae prefer to settle on. It's incredible to think that these tiny (~1 mm long) little corals can be swimming for weeks before they settle out and metamorphose. You can tell that there are high waves on the surface because the habitat depth gauge is fluctuating. That and the surface team's trip was called off. The rest of the team is sitting around the table translating Australian
(Ove and Bill are from Queensland). I guess we all are a bit narced. I
bought a used copy of Jacques Cousteau's 'A Silent World' and that has Per usual, I'm a bit hungry. Maybe I'll be brave and try the NASA fish
veracruz. Then again, maybe not. |
Mission
Date: June, 2002 Mission Summary Aquanaut Profiles Expedition Journals Mission Pictures |
|
|