Sunday 9th November, from Kaimana.

Today is Sunday: a day off for everybody… or almost everybody. The organisation team is working, and so are those who are late in entering their data.

Staying in different boarding houses, the members of the expedition get together for meals, around a dish of rice, grilled fish and water spinach. It is slightly monotonous, but always very nice.

Gilles, an underwater photographer, takes the time to show us his pictures. Seeing them, we wonder why the divers were so disappointed! Here are a samples:

Crocodile fish (about 65 cm long), endangered species – Copyright : G. Di Raimondo / IRD

Pufferfish (about 8 cm long) – Copyright : G. Di Raimondo / IRD

Carpet shark (about 120 cm long) – Copyright : G. Di Raimondo / IRD

(translated by Marion Ducatillon and Audrey Jacques, L2 SVC–Life & Earth Sciences–UM2, France)