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Journal 1 - Jo Gascoigne:
Mission Day 1: Monday, November 11, 2002
I call us aquanaut candidates because apparently we are not officially aquanauts until we have spent the night here - but we are very close!! We arrived at about 4 pm and we are currently peering out the porthole trying to identify all the snappers, grunts, groupers and other fish swimming by, and watching the fish larvae and mysid shrimp feeding in our lights. We just ate our first habitat meal - rehydrated rice and chicken and macaroni and cheese, (surprisingly tasty - perhaps nitrogen dulls your taste buds) and drank our own body weight in hot chocolate. So we are practically qualified, I reckon. We did two dives this morning (from the surface, how quaint) to collect
the corals that we are using for our bleaching experiment. The visibility
was great and the reef looked beautiful. We saw a HUGE moray eel swimming
around - very cool - unusual to see them out of their holes. Then we put
on our aquanaut gear and waved goodbye to the surface team, the sun and
the breeze for 10 days. Mark put us to work immediately - he and Beth
started setting up the chambers for our experimental corals, while Janet
and I profiled dissolved oxygen, pH and temperature over various habitat
types near Aquarius. We took a while to work the bugs out of the protocol
(a scientific way of saying that we thrashed around and generally spazzed
for a while until we got the hang of things). |
Mission
Date: November, 2002 Mission Summary Aquanaut Profiles Expedition Journals Mission Pictures |
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