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Journal 10-
Sarah Fangman: Mission Day 4: Thursday, August 22, 2002 After only a few days, I’ve become familiar with some of the patterns of life around the habitat – in the same way I am familiar with the patterns of life around my house in California. At home, I know that my day will start with birds singing outside my window. The sun will stream into my bedroom in the morning and the living room in the afternoon. I know to expect fog until lunch and sun in the afternoon. The reef around the habitat has a discernable daily pattern that, because we have the luxury of living here, I’ve begun to understand. What a privilege to spend enough time underwater such that I can witness these cycles! In all the diving I have done in the Channel Islands, I have not had the opportunity to develop this type of familiarity - and I’ve only been here four days! Imagine what you could learn about the reef and its inhabitants if you lived here year-round! As for our work…the morning dive (four hours!) was very successful: we tagged one blue parrot fish (Scarus coeruleus), one princess parrotfish (Scarus taeniopterus) and five yellowtail snapper (Ocyurus chrsurus). And we would have had two more blue parrotfish had they not escaped as we were trying to remove them from the trap! The only glitch of the morning occurred after we had released one of the yellowtail snapper post-surgery. As we were watching it swim around, a big black grouper decided to make lunch of our patient! The good news is, we’re also trying to tag black grouper as a part of this study – so now we’re tracking the grouper instead! |
Mission
Date: August, 2002 Mission Summary Aquanaut Profiles Expedition Journals Mission Pictures |
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