Its DECO DAY! Right now I'm sitting at the table as Otter and Ryan rush around preparing the habitat for our decompression to start. I'm really excited to reemerge on the surface tomorrow morning, but also really sad that Mission 31 is over.
Our belongings are all being potted up today, and we are going to officially start decompression around 3:00PM this afternoon.
Last night we did our night dive. It was a beautiful night and we got some great footage. In addition, I got to talk with Alex while I was out on the helmet. Grace called him on my phone, and held the comm. button down so we could talk. Then I climbed up to the viewport and looked in so we could video chat! It was so cool to talk to him while diving :)
This morning we got to go out for one last dive. And it was an INCREDIBLE DIVE! The moment I got into the water I spotted a feeding frenzy right below the habitat. There was a large school of bait fish swarmed by over 15 groupers, and countless snappers, tarpon, a nurse shark and other animals. We observed this incredible display of life for over an hour. During that time the largest of our residential goliath groupers, JYC made a few passes through the swarm, and also got cleaned at a cleaning station. SO AMAZING!
Our belongings are all being potted up today, and we are going to officially start decompression around 3:00PM this afternoon.
Last night we did our night dive. It was a beautiful night and we got some great footage. In addition, I got to talk with Alex while I was out on the helmet. Grace called him on my phone, and held the comm. button down so we could talk. Then I climbed up to the viewport and looked in so we could video chat! It was so cool to talk to him while diving :)
This morning we got to go out for one last dive. And it was an INCREDIBLE DIVE! The moment I got into the water I spotted a feeding frenzy right below the habitat. There was a large school of bait fish swarmed by over 15 groupers, and countless snappers, tarpon, a nurse shark and other animals. We observed this incredible display of life for over an hour. During that time the largest of our residential goliath groupers, JYC made a few passes through the swarm, and also got cleaned at a cleaning station. SO AMAZING!
I love the latest Mission 31 video. It is a time lapse of out side the habitat during one day. The video really shows the amount of life that lives on and around Aquarius.