{"id":613,"date":"2014-10-20T10:46:46","date_gmt":"2014-10-20T09:46:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oceanblogs.org\/kosmos2014gc\/?p=613"},"modified":"2014-10-24T10:58:38","modified_gmt":"2014-10-24T09:58:38","slug":"autumn-cleaning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oceanblogs.org\/kosmos2014gc\/2014\/10\/20\/autumn-cleaning\/","title":{"rendered":"Autumn cleaning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some days ago we started with the most fun part: cleaning the mesocosm bags from outside with a window scraper and a brush operated by a diver.<\/p>\n<p>It may sound strange since our experiment is inside the bags, but we don\u2019t want to have algae growing on the outside and shading the inner environment.<\/p>\n<p>It is tough work since with every stroke of the brush you get out of your balance and have to swim steadily to keep the pressure.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-605\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oceanblogs.org\/kosmos2014gc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2014\/10\/msswat-0325447-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"msswat-0325447\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.oceanblogs.org\/kosmos2014gc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2014\/10\/msswat-0325447-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.oceanblogs.org\/kosmos2014gc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2014\/10\/msswat-0325447-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>From the inside we clean even more regularly. F \u00a0\u00a0or this we do not put the diver into the mesocosms but use a ring with a rubber lip, which just has a little bit bigger diameter than the mesocosm bags, so it takes off gently what is growing on the inside walls.<\/p>\n<p>Every two meters a stabilisation ring keeps the bag in shape, which the ring has to pass, for this we tilt the ring a little bit and it slips through easily.<\/p>\n<p>The diver in the water saw no algae being taken off the walls, which is good, since we want to clean before wall growth even happened.<\/p>\n<p>So clean and nice the mesocosms are now waiting for the deep water to be put in.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-606\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oceanblogs.org\/kosmos2014gc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2014\/10\/msswat-0355492-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"msswat-0355492\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.oceanblogs.org\/kosmos2014gc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2014\/10\/msswat-0355492-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.oceanblogs.org\/kosmos2014gc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2014\/10\/msswat-0355492-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>-Your KOSMOS DIVE TEAM-<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some days ago we started with the most fun part: cleaning the mesocosm bags from outside with a window scraper and a brush operated by a diver. It may sound strange since our experiment is inside the bags, but we don\u2019t want to have algae growing on the outside and shading the inner environment. It [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanblogs.org\/kosmos2014gc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanblogs.org\/kosmos2014gc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanblogs.org\/kosmos2014gc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanblogs.org\/kosmos2014gc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanblogs.org\/kosmos2014gc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=613"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanblogs.org\/kosmos2014gc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":621,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanblogs.org\/kosmos2014gc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613\/revisions\/621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanblogs.org\/kosmos2014gc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanblogs.org\/kosmos2014gc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanblogs.org\/kosmos2014gc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}