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Even five-hour dives allowed researchers only 45 minutes in the depths of the “twilight zone,” because a gradual ascent was needed in order to avoid decompression symptoms, or the bends The same went for the fish they had collected for observation — fish get the bends, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Academy even developed a fish-sized hyperbaric chamber and built an on-site aquarium to transition the different species safely into captivity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in San Francisco, Shepherd is in the process of bringing some of the team’s discoveries to the floor of the aquarium.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Behind the scenes of the bustling aquarium floor, scientists work to prepare the vibrant colors of Philippines underwater life for display, observing their transitions, mating and reproduction habits, and quarantining the newly discovered species to ensure they do not contaminate the existing collection at the museum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_143020\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/07/neonstripescreature.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-143020\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/07/neonstripescreature.jpg\" alt=\"With just enough light for plant life to grow, vibrantly colored coral serve as a home to many of the site's species. 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According to Cal Academy Senior Curator Terry Goslinger, Academy scientists are finding dozens of new species every hour ranging from giant stingrays to the \u003cem>Pseudanthias fasciatus\u003c/em>, whose males are a bright orange with pink and yellow highlights and a thick red stripe down the length of their bodies.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\"> ‘I have no doubt that I was one of the first two people to ever see that space.’\u003cbr>\n\u003ccite>— Bart Shepherd, Cal Academy’s Steinhart Aquarium director\u003c/cite>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Goslinger gives a conservative estimate of between 30,000 and 40,000 species of plant and animal life living in the Philippine passage, more than the Great Barrier Reef in Australia. 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"content": "\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://cdfdata.fire.ca.gov/incidents/incidents_details_info?incident_id=1001\">Bully Fire\u003c/a>, which has burned more than 12,600 acres in Shasta County, is nearly contained. In the two weeks since it ignited, about 2,000 firefighters have battled the blaze. Nearly half of them — 900 — are \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdcr.ca.gov/Conservation_Camps/\">inmates with the California Department of Corrections\u003c/a>. These “low-level offenders” making just $2 an hour are a crucial component in how the state battles wildfires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://vimeo.com/101666018\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“First day we was out here it was like 111 or 115 and that’s not including the fire,” says Emir Dunn. His orange fire suit swamps his slender body, but don’t be fooled by his size. Like most inmate firefighters he lugs more than 100 pounds of gear with him: an axe, food, water, fuel for the chainsaw.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The air tastes like a charcoal briquette. The wind picks up, and a mix of dirt and ash swirl from the ground. Dunn scours the scorched area looking for embers that could reignite. He sees smoke billowing from the ground. He readies the hose and he and a crewmate blast the smoking mound with water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_19786\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/07/RS11253_deng_face-sfi.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19786\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/07/RS11253_deng_face-sfi.jpg\" alt=\"Emir Dunn at work on the Bully Fire in Shasta County. (Adam Grossberg/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Emir Dunn at work on the Bully Fire in Shasta County. (Adam Grossberg/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Dunn and 15 others will stay here for a 24-hour shift. They might catch some sleep, but very little. They hiked up here and they’ll hike back to the pick-up point, a slog that’s likely to be several miles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each crew has one professional firefighter, a captain, and the rest are men convicted of crimes including drug offenses and armed robbery.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">‘It’s just like working with any other group of guys. You kind of get to know their personalities and what they’re capable of.’\u003ccite>— Josh Kitchens, Cal Fire\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Captain Josh Kitchens looks like he came straight out of central casting: tall with a chiseled jaw and the stare of someone who doesn’t play around. He runs Dunn’s crew. He’s pretty much alone with inmates wielding axes and chainsaws in the middle of a forest that happens to be on fire. But he shrugs it off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s just like working with any other group of guys,” he says. “You kind of get to know their personalities and what they’re capable of and you put them in positions most suited for them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before he was the captain of this crew Kitchens was a more traditional firefighter, but he says he signed up to oversee an inmate crew five months ago to expand his experience. And he’s impressed with their work ethic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These guys are some workhorses,” he says. “When it’s time to do some grunt labor, that’s what we’re good at. Get a lot of stuff done with 16 bodies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation has prisoners and Cal Fire needs firefighters. Across the state there are more than 4,000 inmate firefighters. Their labor saves the state more than $100 million a year, according to CDCR.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_19788\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/07/RS11248_sleeping-hpf.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19788\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/07/RS11248_sleeping-hpf.jpg\" alt=\"An inmate firefighter crew sleeps at a base camp in Redding after a 24-hour shift. (Adam Grossberg/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An inmate firefighter crew rests at a base camp in Redding after a 24-hour shift. (Adam Grossberg/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As far as whether the program affects recidivism, corrections officials say they don’t have hard numbers. Anecdotally though, they say they see fewer of these guys back behind bars than those in other programs or straight out of a prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Down the mountain from the Bully Fire, at base camp, inmate Cory Sills is resting after a 24-hour shift. He says he thinks the camps are a success because they’re completely different from prisons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s an assembly where we have a formation in the mornings and it was like my second or third day and the lieutenant comes out and he goes, ‘Look, we’ll treat you like men first, firefighters second and prisoners if we have to,'” Sills recalls. “That right there, that stuck in my head for two years now because now I have a chance to be treated like a man.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">‘It’s not just the walls you get rid of.’\u003ccite>— Michael Dignan, Inmate Firefighter\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>There are guards at the base camp, but you won’t see guns, truncheons or barbed wire. 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