1-6-06 Dive day #2

Here are some pictures from today's dive at the McMurdo jetty. I took along my underwater housing and Olympus 5050 digital camera. When I came back from the dive and took apart the strobe I discovered a bunch of mucky water in the battery compartment, which probably got in when we hooked the camera to the down-line near the bottom before making our ascent. I managed to clean out all the gunk and get the strobe working again, so next time I will have to glue the door shut with silicone prior to making a dive.

The class also arrives in just a few minutes, after having flown in today with a group of special visitors including a couple of US congressional representatives and a senator or two. Class starts in earnest tomorrow morning.

An anemone in the mud bottom, surrounded by a few clam siphons and some other critters.


A pair of sea spiders, pycnogonids, crawling around.


A sea cucumber with its feeding tentacles extended.


Urchins with all sorts of goodies stuck on their backs.


A pile of nemertean worms scavenging on something.