Exploration Journal, Entry 2

Day 2: 07:30 hours… We have arrived at the region of the pond designated as the “open water.” I have ordered the ship made ready for an exploratory dive to a depth of 150 centimeters.

Pond Cutaway w-Course17:55 hours… We are abruptly pulled off course by a sudden change in the water current. We soon see the source of the strange powerful current – it is the feeding vortex of a monstrous copepod!

Trapped in the vortex we now have a terrifyingly close-up view of the copepod’s fan-like mouth parts. These fans create a current in the surrounding water that draws in smaller organisms such as algae cells, and in this case the Cyclops!

We are now in danger of being crushed by the copepod’s mouth. How will we escape this filter-feeding monster?

A thought: When an object too large to devour becomes trapped in the animal’s feeding vortex, the beast must possess a simple way of rejecting it, like a reflex of some kind. That will be our only hope for escape.

Gyro, my crackerjack helmsman, suggests that perhaps a large air bubble would interrupt the copepod’s feeding behavior for a moment… just long enough for us to make a quick getaway.

To be continued…

copepod w: Cyclops

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