Construction Clean-Up

After the construction was completed on our beluga exhibit, the removal of debris was our next task. All of the larger rocks from the reformation of the rock walls were gathered into a pile on one side of the exhibit. It was our job to remove them.




It is unsafe practice to use your BCD as a lifting device, because if the weight somehow detaches itself you could have an uncontrolled buoyant ascent. Instead, a lift-bag should be utilized. Elliott Jessup and Mauritius Bell used a 500lb lift-bag to remove the debris from the bottom of the beluga exhibit, which we then attached to our in-house hoist to raise it onto the topside of the tank.













Jeff Reid, along with Jessup, also dived in the skimmers to remove debris build-up. It was a very tight space. To remove the debris we used the simplest, most effective method; buckets.