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Journal 2 -
Elizabeth Hinchey: Mission Day 1: Monday, November 11, 2002
Wow - after four hours of diving today, I am exhausted! I dove this morning on Nitrox with the surface team to collect corals. In addition to the HUGE moray eel, we saw a small nurse shark (my first shark sighting)! The coral specimens are beautiful - fluorescent green! Right now they are sitting on the ocean floor under the habitat, and we will put them in the chambers tomorrow. Mark and I spent this evening setting up the chambers, and are 1/3 of the way done. First we moved the chambers from the wet porch deck to the sand flat on the starboard side of the habitat (at 63 feet), then after dislodging all of the bubbles inside, we worked on hooking up the cables that will power the pumps and heaters in each chamber. Byron was out on hookah and helped us plug in the cables. It gets dark down here at 1830, so after poking our heads into the wet porch and checking in with Jim, we took out some dive lights and finished our work. Bioluminescent organisms were all over sea floor and water column-all you have to do is wave your hand through the water and it lights up! Tomorrow morning we will finish setting up the chambers so we can start to heat the water inside, then we add the corals. Our surface team (Danny, Kristen and Lauren) will join us to help. For dinner I tried the microwave Mac & Cheese - not very tasty. I had to put it in a tortilla to render it edible. |
Mission
Date: November, 2002 Mission Summary Aquanaut Profiles Expedition Journals Mission Pictures |
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