Salps are delicate animals. In order to get believable results from our laboratory observations and experiments we want to have animals in as good good condition as possible. Therefore we SCUBA dive to collect the salps that are used in the lab.

Each of the “working divers” is attached to a central “trapeze”, where another diver is located. It is the job of this “safety diver” to oversee the dive, allowing the working divers to concentrate on collecting animals in jars.

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