Day 234: almost too wet

Day 234:

Discovered the hard way that there is such a thing as diving too deep here, especially if one is harvesting sand. There’s some kind of undercurrent that forms if you take too much of the seafloor away, and it pulls down on your body while you’re trying to swim back to the surface.

The water is not for breathing, it seems.

I should probably just be grateful it’s water and not liquid methane or some other horribleness that so many of the planetesimals I’ve  cleared over the years have been filled with. But really, it’s hard to be grateful when you’re coughing it up.

Here’s hoping the water isn’t filled with lung-eating parasites.