We have each light individually switched from inside the sub. The other two are provide light for the WS90 camera that really likes a lot of light. They are 400 watt HMI lights that are amazingly efficient, providing the equivalent of 1200 watts of tungsten light each. Clearly a great amount of effort has gone into acquiring the very best images we can and into getting these quality images up to the surface through the complicated and delicate fiber optics cables. And so we are finally ready.
All systems are go.
Many people from Washington, DC, California, England, New Zealand, Canada and readers of the web site around the world are all hoping and praying for our success in getting to the squid's homeland in the Kaikoura Canyon, filming it for the first time, and safely returning to the surface.