I was thinking it could be set up to remove and store on dock once you're done viewing...this would ensure it isn't covered with algae or periphyton quickly? Just crank it up or down and in or out you go. Wonder how one would actually get into and out of the tube, though?

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after. ~ Henry David Thoreau

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