This morning we started the day with a safety and orientation drill around the recompression chamber housed aboard the Virazon. We are extremely fortunate to have three chamber operators on board (Murat, Orkan, and Sheila) as well as a hyperbaric physician, Matthew Partrick. Matthew also gave us an overview of the various medical supplies on board, including an AED which he was able to procure at no cost to the project.
On the seabed, we completed the installation of the safety tanks, telephone booth, and airlift hose, which will provide the compressed air to fill the giant lift balloons that we will use to ‘flip’ each 6-ton marble column drum 180 degrees into a ‘basket’ of lifting straps. But first we need to unwrap each of the 6 drums from the protective nylon sheet that we applied in 2009 to prevent the accumulation of more sea growth.