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| Pleasant conditions |
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| Before-deep CTD |
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| After - deep CTD |
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| Jose-roped to his work |
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| Jose - chipping away |
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| Main column - before |
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| Main column-after |
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| The big picture |
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| Cleaning brought us many friends hunting for scraps |
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| Spectators doubling as security guards |
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| Cleaning has pitfalls -we saved this one. |
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| Jose's handiwork |
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| Paling of corals |
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| Pale Montastrea sp |
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| Diseased-Meandrina sp |
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| Connected groundtruth CTD |
The groundtruth CTD was connected at about 10:56 am and ran undisturbed for at least two hours. Jose cleaned and changed the mesh on the top CTD, but for the most part none were disturbed. The groundtruth CTD was disconnected at about 3:20p.m. just before our departure from the site.
A week before going to the site , a check on the data revealed conditions conducive to bleaching, on a brief swim around, we did observe some minimal paling that did not appear widespread and was mostly species specific.
Next planned visit, Week of October 15, 2012.