I like how the melodrama is largely plausible: how close are hospitals, sea lions can get territorial (not that I've ever been scared of sea lions, even without chainmail...)
They seem to be showing a lot more of the day-to-day ops and activity. Good stuff. They have squid now, and are preparing to attach the camera.
(aside: I need to get a dive fix... it's been too long... but I really need a refresher class)
d'oh. They love showing you when you're stressed out, Dale. Although the "the squid turned around and now I'm tangled up" is more of a good grace under pressure, even if you let out a little "oh sh*bleep*."
Te Papa squid footage... leaving us cliff-hanger on the camera and showing Te Papa footage...
D'oh. Engineering failure. Retrofit fix.
Hint from MBARI: you can fill cavities with fluid, and have a bellows that gives the fluid some room to compress. Mineral oil, maybe.
Feisty squid... "I won't wear your camera, but I'll eat it!"
I like the "realistic melodrama"-- "I almost dropped the washer. Oh, caught it."
Looks like it's hard to get back on the boat in that chainmail. Nice beak footage as it attacks the camera. Ok, more feisty squid footage, but it looks like the shoal moved on, so the tethered camera squid didn't see much. They seem to show the lasers scared the other squids off, some footage with no lasers. Weird that the lasers freak out squids more than the lights... I wonder if it's the long beam, the polarization, the monochromatic blue-green that looks similar in color to bioluminescence?
Looks like great footage for people who are satisfied with 6 foot squids. Dale, is there any chance to ask the History people to put a youtube or something of the whole hour of squidcam?
I give it a 2 tentacles up. It's on a few more times in October, set your DVRs:
Wednesday, October 22 08:00 PM
Thursday, October 23 12:00 AM
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and congrats to Dale for a great show, and I hope they'll give you a chance to go again with a better pressure-tested camera rig (and maybe remote control for the laser switch?)