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an«3 this tiBje placed the shell vith the opening on the sand. He raised 
one side of it and slid under. When I raised the shell to look, was 
in the proper position inside, I repeated this little piece of action 
ttar^r times, and fotind him invariably very speedy about getting into his 
shell — once he had found it. But my feeling is that he is definitely 
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myopic, , 
On the vay hon® there was a loud explosion in the boat, big 
camera box had had exploded J I keep seven or el^t pounds of pressure 
in the cases, and the teat of the sun had doubtless added several more. 
These housings are designed to resist pressiire from outside, but not 
so much from the Inside, One of the lug bolts had pulled its fastenings 
When we got to the house and opened the case I found the lid blown off 
the camera and the batteries in a jiamble, , But as far as I could see, 
no damage that could not be repaired. It ruined about thirty feet of 
film, 1 have been doing undersea jhotography for about sixteen years, 
ate never run out of ways to get into trouble, 
July 10 , Mended the camera box, refocussed the camera, listened for 
strange sounds from it. So far as I could determine there we re‘ no bad 
effects of yesterday’s blow-up. Thank goodness I 
Sirce we are moving over to the study of stomatopods and need a 
different kind of equipment undersea, we spent the day building a small 
floating diffuser to shade the shooting area, and a stomatopod -proof 
mesh box where we can store specimens on the bottom if we need some 
8i>areE. This took all day. 
As night was falling we went out for our first look at the reeflet 
