Today was my last day out at the fore reef on my trip here to Moorea. First thing this morning Andy, Brett, Susan, and I headed out to the Rapid plots one last time. Susan is a collaborator here with the MCR-LTER and she had never seen the fore reef on Moorea before. Brett and Susan followed Andy and I around as we went to each plot with coral tiles for photographs. We ended up taking pictures of one plot twice and were certainly pushing the envelope toward the end to get everything done in one dive. Considering that my Air 2/Inflator was leaking the entire dive, I am surprised I lasted. I think because we took pictures of 11 plots instead of 10 I had to push my tank below 500. When I surfaced without a safety stop, I noticed Susan was on the floor of the boat near the swim step and I knew when I saw this coming up the swim ladder that something wasn't right. Apparently she broke off her nail grabbing on to the swim ladder in the wavey conditions that awaited us when we came up. She also broke a bone in the same finger. When we were all back on the boat we cut the mooring and secured it to the bottom and then headed back to Gump. She seemed fine and we were really impressed by her nonchalant attitude. When we got back I got to working on the last of the boat trailers for maintenance. Took me a while but I got them all done. After that the day was pretty much over so we packed it in for the day. For dinner we cooked some swordfish that we bought at the grocery store before going to a native dance performance in Maharepa. The food was great and the show after was even better. The costumes and choreography were incredible to see. I have seen a number of Tahitian and Polynesian dances at school but never anything close to what I saw tonight. After we got back, I got to working on my proposal a little more before I got into bed. Until later.
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