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​BLOG BY GRACE C. YOUNG                                                                              
                                                                               


LAST M31 MORNING, DECOMPRESSION STARTS SOON

7/1/2014

 
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Go well. Stay well!
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My last underwater images while officially on Mission 31 (tear). Credit Fabien Cousteau. 
This morning we went on an early dive and didn't need to swim far. Right below the wet porch, a school of fish swam and looped around and around sixteen feeding grouper. A nurse shark and groups of snapper joined the feeding frenzy, as Matt, Liz and I watched, in the middle of the action. It was our last dive of Mission 31. It's crazy how quickly time has passed! 

This afternoon we start decompression. That's when the pressure inside the habitat changes over the course of 18 hours, from 2.5 atmospheres to 1 atmosphere. Brain Helmuth, the Mission 31 science advisor from Northeastern, just wrote The Science (and Math) of Decompression, and fellow aquanaut Adam Zenone wrote about his decompression experience from the first half of the mission. By 7 AM tomorrow, our bodies will have slowly acclimated to surface pressure, and we'll return to the surface, where we'll celebrate "splash-up." 
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Enjoying perhaps my last hot chocolate by the viewport. Decompression starts soon.
A quick video tour of Aquarius I made after my last dive this morning. 
A short clip of last minute underwater ballet on top Aquarius. 
A time-lapse video of the aquatic life around Aquarius Reef Base.  
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Decompression just started and
​will continue for 18 hours.

An overview of Mission 31 science thanks to Earth Island Journal: 31-Day Undersea Mission has Been a Boon for Marine Scientists; A young researcher talks about Fabien Cousteau's underwater living experiment. 
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    Grace Young  (B.S., MIT, Ph.D, Oxford) is an ocean engineer, aquanaut, and explorer currently working at X. She lived underwater as a scientist and engineer on Fabian Cousteau’s Mission 31, and is a National Geographic Explorer. 

    Blog Highlights: 
    1. No Engineer is an Island
    2. Mission 31 Highlights
    3. Sailing Across the Atlantic 
    ​3. Return to CERN

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