CHAPTER 13
Rounding up basic equipment for the expedition was a pain in the ass. The university’s oceanography department had its own stock of gear: a variety of thermometers, hydrometers, salinometers and chemical test kits, although most of it was already in use by other researchers. The Foundation dealt with regular suppliers who rented out higher precision oxygen probes, fathometers, even remotely-operated vehicles, ROVs—at a steep price. In fact, the ROV would be more costly than all the other instruments combined; but whatever was responsible for the suppression of CO2-eating algae might be something visible, like a specific feature of undersea topography, or even discarded human artifacts of some kind. If so, Sakiko would need to take a look, probably at depths far beyond the reach
