Today I went to Cape Evans to help Jim and Shawn dive for algae. I was kind of jealous watching the divers go through the hole off of McMurdo and dive under the ice, but today I was glad to be a spectator/tender rather than a diver. Here's Shawn walking out to push chunks of ice out of the way so they could get in the water.
We helped them haul their tanks and weights (over 40 lbs!) over to the shore and get geared up (it's hard to get gloves on, at least the 2nd one) and even harder to get them off with numb fingers.
We watched the divers go out and hung out on the shore watching penguins. Connor was going to go diving but decided to skip out when she saw all the ice... probably a smart decision. More soon...
[Random sidenote: Warren just told Dennis, "you've got the best microfluidics expert in the world in San Francisco - Steven Quake" and I said, "That's my best friend's cousin!"]
agh sooo cool!!!! i love your blog!!!!!
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