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August 5# 
Chris and Dr. Schmitt wont crabbing last night and picked up five or 
six of them and put them in the floating net at the end of the dock. This 
morning Tom and I wont out to the shooting location ready to do business and 
had all of the equipment on the bottom before we remembered that we had 
brought no crabs* So back for the crabs — and it turned out that the 
little devils all had escaped from the not* So we had nothing with which 
to entice the octopus out into the open# 
I spent the morning photographing the grouper being cleaned by an 
oceanops, and a trigger boating a small urchin to pieces# Then we moved 
over to a coral head half a block away where there are round anemones^ and 
I made some footage of a Yucatanious moving about among them# Tried to 
induce them to close by dropping a small brittle star on them. They weren’t, 
interested# Same was true with a couple of very small crabs# At this 
point Tom showed me a big-eye being cleaned by a Yucatanious# It was on 
the side of the fish, and was actively cleaning# This is the first time I 
ever have seen one in action# 
August 6# 
Sunday# 
August 7# 
Cloudy all day. Dr# Schmitt and I went out to the shooting location 
and I showed him around the area, this being his first time down with a 
