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Jim Schlesinger is our equipment manager. Here he's pictured
assembling a trigger on one of the Little Boy scooters [photo
©1998 Barbara Anne am Ende].
Non-native weeds choking the waterways are everywhere. Elodea was
removed from Sally Ward spring. Todd Byran and Paul Heinerth move the
elodea from the water to Bill Stone who is collecting it on shore
[photos ©1998 Barbara Anne am Ende].
Meanwhile, divers are "racking up hours" on the rebreathers. All the
lead divers have had extensive training on the rigs, but the more
hours they've spent diving the MK5s,
the safer they'll be when mapping missions begin. Today, Rick Stanton
and Jason Mallinson logged a 2-1/2 hour dive using MK5s and Little
Boy scooters (the bailout DPVs, which have approximately 3/8 the
range of the Fat
Man primary scooters).
Todd Bryan and Richie Hudson had the dirty job of scrubbing out the inside of the saturation chamber. It was a pretty disgusting job, and they didn't want their pictures taken! Thanks to them for a job well done.
John Zumrick and Jim Brown drove to Madison Blue Springs to retrieve the majority of the dive gear. Madison Blue was the principal training location prior to the mission start.
In the evening, we had an impromptu group meeting at Mission Control.
Pictured here are (left to right): Jim Schlesinger [US}, Rick
Stanton [UK], Paul Heinerth[US], Matt Matthes
[Mexico], Jason Mallinson [UK], Andrew Poole
[Australia], John Vanderleest [Australia], and
Barbara am Ende [US]. Team training issues and equipment
standardization were discussed [photo ©1998 William C.
Stone].
