French Frigate Shoals round 2!

Hi Guys,
We pulled back into French Frigate Shoals yesterday morning for our second visit. We have a total of 3.5 more days here. We started our second visit back over at sharks island yesterday morning. It was beautiful. There was practically no swell and barely any wind. We spent our first dive looking for a data logger that Derek had put out so that we could take some pictures; making it easier to find next year. Simultaneously, Anne and I were swimming around trying to find some new artifacts for the team. The archeology team really wants to find the ships bell. After one dive, we spent the rest of the day snorkeling in the shallows looking for artifacts. It was a pretty light day for us. Today I got traded to the invasive species team again. One of the divers wasn't feeling well and there are only two divers on that team so I stood in for him. I had a lot of fun. We spent the entire day searching for lobsters for one of the other grad students in my department. I was really excited because I spent an entire summer in the keys helping out a lobster biologist. Finally, I was asked to do something I am good at! lol. Anyways, these guys are really hard to find up here. My advisor and I found 5, but we only caught 3. I felt like I was mini cavern diving because the lobsters like small cracks in the rocks. So, in order to catch them you had to wiggle yourself into little swim through's and cracks in the coral structure and then reach your real far and hope for an antenna! I wish I could have taken a picture (I left my camera on the boat for this) because we looked really funny with our feet dangling out in the air..err...water. Anyways, 2 more days here and them off to Nihoa!

Cheers,
Nyssa