I used to suck algae for a living.I had a job with the USDA Aquatic Weed Research Facility in California. I was a lab assistant. One of the many weird jobs there was cleaning the huge water tanks they used to grow aquatic weeds. The only way to clear out unwanted algae bloom was to insert a siphon into the tank and move it around to suck the algae out and leave the aquatic weeds remaining.
I could go on about the other job counting 'spikerush' leaves for weeks on end (imagine counting blades of grass by hand, but underwater)...
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Mon 10 Nov 2003, 15:03,
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I could go on about the other job counting 'spikerush' leaves for weeks on end (imagine counting blades of grass by hand, but underwater)...
In the Aquarium at Bristol Zoothey let a local diving club practise in their tanks, so long as they clean the algae off the insides of the glass while they do it.
Hilarious sight
(Hilarious sight
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Mon 10 Nov 2003, 15:08,
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