Finding NEEMO

My Life seems to be one tangent after another. The people that know me can attest to this. Every conversation starts off innocently enough then, without warning, a sharp left turn and we are down a rat hole. Funny thing is the people closest to me are artful in this style of communication, as well. Never a boring discussion. Who knows, I may have ADHD. The advent of Wikipedia and YouTube have not helped my plight. Before I go off on another one, let me make my point...

I didn't misspell the title of this post. Although I love that little fish, I am referring to NEEMO (NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations) which is a NASA program for studying human survival in the Aquarius underwater laboratory in preparation for future space exploration. Check this out...

Aquarius, an underwater habitat located near Key Largo, Florida, is owned by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and operated by the National Undersea Research Center (NURC) at the University of North Carolina–Wilmington as a marine biology study base. NASA has used it since 2001 for a series of missions, usually lasting 10 to 14 days, with research conducted by astronauts and others NASA employees. The crew members are called aquanauts instead of "divers", and they perform EVAs in the underwater environment. Groups of NASA employees and contractors live in Aquarius for up to three weeks at a time. For NASA, Aquarius provides an environment similar to space living, and NEEMO crew members experience some of the same tasks and challenges underwater as they would in space.

It's amazing - the oceans (pun intended) of useless information the internet holds and how much I need to find it.

And all I wanted to know is if Jaba Chamberlain's father was okay (he is getting better) and I ended up here. By the way, the floor plan of Aquarius in the second picture above seems to have more room than my buddy's future home - "To Yurt or Not To Yurt". Uh oh, here we go, again.