For everyone that has ever wondered what fish in an aquarium feel like, well, I think I know. We are now living about 47ft under the ocean in a big metal tube. I thought it would be uncomfortable and cramped. But its really not. We have several portholes where we can watch the fish outside. Or are they really watching us? Like a reverse aquarium, a "humanarium". Sometimes I get the feeling that the fish just swim by to take a look at us to see what the humans are doing.

Our first dive as Aquanauts was today. We spent a couple of hours checking on the cages we are building as part of our experiment. We stared our dive around 5:00PM and went until around 7:00PM. So, while we were diving it got dark. We got to watch the daytime fish go to bed while the nocturnal fish woke up. It was definitely very cool. While we were working on our cages and hammering and hammering nails into bare ocean bottom, little critters would light up like light bulbs and glow. They were fluorescing. Every time I hit a nail with my hammer, I was treated to a little starry night light show right in front of me. After the dive we returned to the Aquarius and had dinner - freeze-dried Chinese food. While that may sound like a bad camp meal, it's actually really good - especially after a nice dive. I'm definitely ready for more diving - waiting for tomorrow.