Under the sea

Nothing too exciting has been going on here.  We have both been working a lot, but we've managed to fit in some diving.

We dove near Tengan River with Masaru and Daisuke and found some neat critters, including this hermit crab and the shrimp in the sponge below.

Nate found an empty giant clam shell that he took back for a friend who has been wanting one. 

 The local fisherman laughed at him for bringing an empty shell back. We told them we were hungry, so we ate the clam underwater.

A group of us from the lab did some Nitrox diving with Taku, seen below using his rebreather.

  

Ctrl + click on this photo...it is really cool.

On the nitrox dives we were at 25-35 m depth (~80-115 feet) and saw an incredibly diverse coral reef with a lot of different live corals, cool tube worms, ascidians, and sponges.

The ascent from these deep dives was very blue.

We found a handmade Ryukyus glass set of glasses at the recycle shop and bought them to bring back to the states with us.  That shit made us happy.