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Well we just stay out here all day and
keep cleaning.

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Most of the year we're out there cleaning buoys. We dive, we install new lines, new buoys and then

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we'll actually install new pins, too.
Or mantas, which are the actual anchors

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that go into the substrate.

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We have 27,000 feet of downline holding all our buoys down.

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And I think the average depth for everything in the sanctuary is like 33 feet.

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The downlines end up running 42, 44 months before they're changed out.

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Mitch is a newcomer, he's only been with us about a year. He's from

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Wisconsin originally. He lives on a sailboat.

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Brady is also from Wisconsin.

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He's a scuba instructor, he was working on a live-aboard,

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a big yacht that went cruising around.

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It's kind of hard to be around them during football season

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because they're all Packer fans

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and I'm a Patriots fan, so you know

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we have these... we have these problems.

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Yeah, exactly.

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We'll assess what's going on down below and see how much line we've got and what we need to do.

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Benefit of the buoy system? It keeps anchors off the bottom.

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The anchors destroy the reef.

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A lot of times people drop anchors and and even if they drop them in sand

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the anchors will drag and if you've
gone diving down there you know how

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fragile the reef is.

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This is one of the
most popular spots because the reef

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creates such a break that it takes down
the wave height and a lot of the snorkel

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boats prefer to come back here.

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Some days we have dive ops and some days we do installs and some days we just clean buoys.

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So, that'll be today.

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Now it's lunch time.