Mm, good point. Cooking lessons can wait until we figure out how to keep a fire going up on one of the sandbars.

[ No more explosions (literal or otherwise) necessary in a sealed underwater base. The Aurora losing stability had been bad enough, and that was from a decent distance. ]

The kelps are easier. Not half bad if you dry them out flat and leave some of the sea salt on for flavour. Which does come around to an ongoing necessity, mission wise: supply procurement. Are you familiar with that sort of thing?