The last rosette cast of the trip just came up from
2500 meters, and it had the heads (the five pre-shrunken ones that had already gone down to 1000 meters, earlier) and most of the cups. Here are some photos.
While these heads can never brag about having visited Pacific bottom
waters, they sure got shrunken, and they look pretty good after their journey. Some cracking, and some variation, but
the double dip seems to have shrunken them effectively – in general, more
effectively than the single
deeper dip their sisters got. They seem to have personalities
all their own (demure, creepy, confident). Tonight I go off shift before 3 am (but can I possibly sleep any earlier than 3 am?), and we'll be back at O'ahu's Snug Harbor around 8 am.
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Mahalo nui loa, Mrs. Kassis, for sharing your adventure with us! We read all of your blog posts and were amazed with what happened to the heads. We made predictions more than once and some were close. We were trying to think like scientists and wondered why the heads did not come out all the same. It was good to know that studying the evidence and thinking of possible explanations are what scientists do!
Welcome home and thank you for including us in your adventure!
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