A Day of Grant Training

Silver Spring, MD -- 1/24/06

Well, don't feel too jealous of the exciting day of training I had. It left a lot to be desired. Too general and repetitive for the most part. The highlight of the day was checking out the display they had of NOAA's Hydrolab in one of the rooms where we had presentations. The relatively small Hyrdolab, while in operation for a number of years (1966-1985) has been replaced by the much larger Aquarius undersea lab that is currently deployed south of Key Largo, FL. The picture on the right is from the NOAA website and shows the Aquarius Lab before deployment in 1986.

I didn't get a picture of the Hydrolab display so I'll have to do that tomorrow. Meanwhile, here are some pictures from the NOAA Photo library:

1. J. Perry, HYDROLAB builder, swims away from the lab
2. Wet porch entry to HYDROLAB, way station in background
3. Aquanauts relax inside HYDROLAB
4. Inside HYDROLAB, only 8 x 16 ft., the head (toilet) was outside
5. HYDROLAB scientists conducted coral reef studies not possible from the surface