. Atoll research bulletin. Coral reefs and islands; Marine biology; Marine sciences. 226. facilities what a devastating fire did in December 1997. New and improved for the 1999 season, the CCRE program continues to host Smithsonian scientific divers in their quest for increasing knowledge of the marine environment and its component parts. Ruetzler and Macintyre (1982) published the early coral-reef work at Carrie Bow Cay on the Belize Barrier Reef. A significant number of these studies were accomplished using scientific diving techniques. On numerous diving trips to Carrie Bow Cay since 1990,1
. Atoll research bulletin. Coral reefs and islands; Marine biology; Marine sciences. 226. facilities what a devastating fire did in December 1997. New and improved for the 1999 season, the CCRE program continues to host Smithsonian scientific divers in their quest for increasing knowledge of the marine environment and its component parts. Ruetzler and Macintyre (1982) published the early coral-reef work at Carrie Bow Cay on the Belize Barrier Reef. A significant number of these studies were accomplished using scientific diving techniques. On numerous diving trips to Carrie Bow Cay since 1990,1 have had the pleasure of collecting and photographing fish with Jack Randall, scientific diver extraordinaire, Carole Baldwin (Fig. 7), Kassie Cole and others. Another Kodak moment was snapped when, after a dive on the ridge, Klaus Ruetzler and I had to swim a zodiac with a recalcitrant engine all the way back to the island through swarms of Linuche. Zodiacs and old Johnson outboard engines, it turns out, are not very effective as artificial reefs, much to the disappointment of Mike Carpenter, long- time CCRE Operations Chief. In another diving incident, Wolfgang Sterrer, Molly Ryan, and I were diving in the sand trough at 90 feet collecting the top 5 cm of sand for Wolfgang's Gnathostomulida research. About 25 minutes into this dive, Wolfgang gave me the out-of-air signal, wanting to share air. I obliged by giving him my AIR II alternate regulator connected to my buoyancy compensator dump hose. After verifying that his submersible pressure gauge did in fact read zero psi of pressure, I motioned for him to dump his 5-gallon bucket of sand, which he wasn't willing to do. Ascending with my left hand on our boat's anchor line, my right hand on his bucket's handle, Molly gracefully swimming up with us, and Wolfgang with lockjaw around my second regulator, I had an enlightening moment. I contemplated dumping the bucket. Then I realized I could not dump air out of my since Wolf
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