Chapter
Chapter I — Arrival
1r – 6v
“I had been told by everyone with a kind face that the first descent was the hardest, and by everyone with a professional face that it was not.”
The chapter that does not know yet that it is the first chapter. Three journal entries from the first eighteen months at Varangurd, interleaved with the places that gave them their geography and the two organisms that, between them, taught me what looking was for at this depth. I have rewritten the arrival entry three times and each time the trimix tastes like nothing, which is the point.
- 1vJournalArrival, the upper rib2185-09-02 · 95 m
- 2vPlaceKarrowin Halt40 m – 80 m · human
- 3rPlaceVarangurd Anchorage80 m – 180 m · human
- 3vSpeciesKelp-fanwingPetalichthys vexillata
- 4rJournalKelp-tax dinner2186-02-19 · 110 m
- 5rPlaceHelmsward Crossing100 m – 140 m · human
- 5vJournalPhosphor on the lower rib2186-06-04 · 165 m
- 6vSpeciesPhosphor-kelpflora