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2004 Maintenance

The Aquarius staff spends the winter months preparing the lab for another productive year of operations.

Divers maintain exterior valves.
Billy sending a pot to the surface.
Hal and James equipped to release the LSB mooring.
Waystation umbilicals ready for redeployment.
Gazebos ready for final painting.
Hal stripping the Pinnacle waystation.
Northeast mooring ball ready for return to site.
Kamper maintenance.
Cleaning mooring lines.
Cleaning the recompression chamber.
Staff remain vigilant at removing attached organisms.
Towing in LSB for cleaning.
Flounder plates ready for final painting.
Ross inspecting scuba cylinders.
Crew hauling in one of the LSB mooring lines.
Returning to base with mooring ball for refurbishment.
Aquarius Crew.
LSB under tow back to Conch Reef.