Montag, 5. September 2011

the joys of fieldwork

Today was quite exhausting. After a dive in 10 m I finally managed to
catch a Neolamprologus pulcher! This sounds trivial but it is in fact
very difficult and time consuming as they are really clever
bastards…However time was running out and we had to hurry to get to
the surface in time.
In the afternoon I did not dive but helped getting some experimental
cages down to our experimental area in 10 m depth by driving with our
boat to the spot marked by a floater and dropping them attached to the
floater. It sounded really easy: the cages will then sink softly to
the ground and Stefan and Barbara can then fix them at the bottom
while diving.
"Pustekuchen" : First we could not find the floater. When the 2 divers
then dropped into the water they realized that those 1x1x1 cages are
not really handy. Especially under water. They also do not sink
softly. It was quite a hustle to get them to the bottom (the divers
said). On the boat we also struggled with currents, floaters that did
not float, divers we did not want to collide with etc.
No everything is well and I am going to enjoy dinner. Now.

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