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Today's goal was to perform a full team simulation of a 5 kilometer (17,000 ft) dive by 3 rebreather divers driving Fat Man scooters, towing backup scooters. After the dive, the divers returned to the surface in the transfer capsule and decompressed in the chamber. Because the dive was a simulation at shallow depths, the actual decompression time was no greater than a 3 minute safety stop, but the transfer capsule process was used to simulate future in-cave missions.
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Brian Kakuk and Tom Johnson prepare a rebreather for the dive later in the day [photo © 1998 Barbara Anne am Ende]. |
Matt Matthes hydrates with a liter
of water prior to his dive [photo © 1998 Barbara
Anne am Ende].
Rick Stanton checks in at the
surface at the beginning of the dive [photo © 1998
Barbara Anne am Ende].
Matt Matthes floats at the surface
while Rick collaborates with support personnel on the barge
[photo © 1998 Barbara Anne am Ende].
Today's humor picture: Steve Auer attempts to remove the Mission Control front window through biological vacuum-assist [photo © 1998 Barbara Anne am Ende].
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