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Acknowledgements: This column is meant to serve the ocean com- munity in the manner of Make Magazine, Forrest Mims’ Engineer’s

Mini-Notebooks, or other DIY communities. I hope it will promote creative thinking and curiosity to try new things, as I have bene? tted over time from members of the marine community who shared their expertise and enthusiasm with me. From earlier days at Benthos,

Sam Raymond and Robert Catalano stand out in my memory. I learned so much working with the TR-6000. Jim Teague, then at

Emerson-Cuming/Grace Syntactics, who knows everything there is about syntactic foam, has been a great friend. I have recollection of a paper by Cliff Goudey at MIT/WHOI, who ? rst used plastic trawl ? oats as shallow water instrument housings. Gerald Albich, then with Nautilus Marine Service in Germany, who was intrigued by an idea to make their Vitrovex glass spheres with a little thicker wall so they would go deeper. The horizon keeps calling us onward.

Le petit baigneur, the little bather, a name from a popular 1960’s French ? lm. This little lander is a tool of discovery for a young student in the south of France. The ? ag mast has since gotten its ? ag.

Photo courtesy Kevin Hardy

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