We brought along a styrofoam head that everyone on board signed, along with styrofoam cups. I cups with Bella and Sommer's names on them. Bella's cup has a drawing of ALVIN retrieving "Night Night Bear" from the great depths.
The Nalgene bottle was used for scale. Originally, the dive was thought to be going 1000m, however, it ended up going over 2000m. The head seems to weigh more than it did before, but its just the condensed version which throws things off a bit, obviously it weighs the same.
Jason, his best Nixon......his first time going down in Alvin was today. He has been on a ship before that was carrying ALvin, but there are only so many spots. I have done the math.....I don't think that I'm going to make it down on my maiden voyage, but keep your fingers crossed.
It is customary to give the person taking their first dive in Alvin to get drenched in cold water. Brian and I filled some buckets with ice, poured some sea water in so it wouldn't freeze, and stuck the buckets in a freezer for about 30 minutes before dousing him.
Some pictures of things in the cooler. These worms are tough to pick "forams" from, because of the constant rotating that is envolved.
Anyone have questions about anything? Click on the "comments" link and type me something. Nobody has done that yet????? and thanks to Chuck for passing the blog around to a few others.
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