Wakulla 2 was joined by two cool young people. Morgan (left), Brian Kakuk's daughter, arrived today, as did Justin Wilson (right). Both are joining the team as support personnel and they've already been put to work! [photo ©1998 Barbara Anne am Ende].

From time to time, the Wakulla 2 project spends a little time pulling underwater weeds from the spring pool basin. In the upper photo, Bill Stone (light grey sweatshirt) pulls on the dry end of a rope wrapped around a mass of hydrilla which we estimate to weigh more than a ton. John Buxton (blue wetsuit) helps pull in the water. Three times this afternoon, we wrapped a rope around a mass of weeds, and pulled the mass loose with the cable and pneumatically powered winch (provided by Ingersoll-Rand) used for the transfer capsule. The lower photograph (taken the next morning) shows the 3 patches of weeds. The patches don't look too big, but they're really like icebergs. The main bulk is below the water and the patches are grounded in the shallow water [photos ©1998 Barbara Anne am Ende].