Today started off with the recently usual Gump dive. It was the same old same old for the most part. I then got to go out with Russ to go and get some more algal settlement tiles at LTER 1. The visibility out there was pretty amazing. At this site, we use a tag line to connect our boat to a subsurface buoy. This means someone has to snorkel down and latch the boat to the buoy. That person ended up being me and as I dove to the buoy I got a real good idea of the water clarity. I could easily see fish below me that had to have been 50 feet further down which as of late has been pretty customary visibility. The actual dive wasn't incredibly exciting at all because we just went down, got the tiles, and came back up. Once we got back there really wasn't much else to do around the station for us so we decided to take a long lunch. After a two hour lunch, I ended up working on coral tiles across the street in the lab. It is real tedious work where you just sit and look at these tiles under a dissecting microscope and circle any coral that you see. I did that for the rest of the work day and then called it quits at 5. After I got off I tried to work on my blog and Fulbright application a bit before dinner. For dinner, Sammy and Katrina made pad thai which is just peanut butter and spicy sauce on noodles with some chicken which together were really good. After dinner, many of the people from the dorm went across the street to watch this TV show locked up abroad that was on Mike's computer. After that it was time for bed. I feel exhausted. Until later.
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