|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 |
 |
||||||||||||
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
|
 |
|||||||||||||
|
Journal 8-Mike
Feeley: Mission Day 3: Wednesday, August 21, 2002 We have settled into our daily routine in Aquarius. The days go by quickly. By day two it seemed completely normal to be staying underwater and consider the habitat to be our home. I still can’t get used to leaving the wet porch in the morning and be able to swim to our first sampling station without having to swim down from the surface. Rick and I are accumulating about six hours of bottom time each day and it still doesn’t seem like enough time in the water. I think your perspective changes about time spent in the water when you don’t have to return to the surface. Our work is going smoothly, the only glitch so far is that our computer is not operating so we cant enter our data. Each day you seem to see something new on the reef. I wish we had more time to look around, however. Even though we are counting and measuring fish, a good part of the dive is spent writing things down. By the time we are done, we have to hurry back to the habitat to stay within our excursion time limits. Today we saw Creole wrasse spawning over the reef just about an hour and half before the sun went down, which was kind of cool. Rick and I also saw a group of about thirteen eagle rays working their way east along the reef ridgeline. Tomorrow we head back and start re-sampling our stations. |
Mission
Date: August, 2002 Mission Summary Aquanaut Profiles Expedition Journals Mission Pictures |
|
|