Shirley and Kerry went out with ProDive to White Sands on their usual Sunday morning dive. The dive went great, they found the Lissoclinum target species that has been evading them for the last decade. Only to have Kerry drop the sampling bag with the precious species.
After getting back to shore there was chaos chartering another dive, getting tanks filled, getting new sampling gear….
Well after 15 minutes they managed to find the dropped bag with the precious samples and called it a day. So instead of being finished diving at 12:30 they only got back at 15:30, with the target species!
Hopefully with the new collection more research can follow up on the already innovative chemicals already found. You can read more on the research here Mandelalides A–D, Cytotoxic Macrolides from a New Lissoclinum Species of South African Tunicate. Justyna Sikorska, Andrew M. Hau, Clemens Anklin, Shirley Parker-Nance, Michael T. Davies-Coleman, Jane E. Ishmael, and Kerry L. McPhail.
We ended of a hectic day with a lovely walk along the beach.
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