Man Of The Sea

 


We ended the day by sitting poolside watching the sun set and listening to LIVE music!  Pretty cool.  No swimming though since the heated pool was COLD!  What's up with that!  Back to the room for hot showers.  Wait.  No water!  What?!?  Then my phone goes wonky and I cannot send messages and my hotspot doesn't work.  What is happening?
My phone has been rebooted and seems to be okay.  Still no water.  UGH! (Water back on by 8pm!)

This morning we went to Man Of The Sea Museum.  Cool stuff!  Having just learned to scuba dive last year, I find it amazing that anyone would be a guinea pig for this equipment!





                                                        Creepy doll like mannequins!

                                                        Then there's Paul.

                                                Amazing facts about Tuffy the dolphin.  So smart 
                                                   with an amazing personality.  I knew I liked dolphins!

                                                        Paul being a true tourist.


Then we actually were able to go inside the original Sealab I (there were 3 and the stories are captivating).  In 1964 they "sunk" this torpedo shaped "lab" here in Bay County and the aquanauts lived there for 11 days.  So many details that had to be figured - electricity, heat, and most important - helium/oxygen concentrations.  Four men in a tiny space for an extended time with experimental oxygen concentrations?  No thank you!  But they did good.  Even after the failure of Sealab III, enough was learned from their experiments that the Navy used their deep dive oxygen concentrations to eavesdrop on the Russians during the cold war in their own deep waters.


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