...well now, cutting scaveola - there's an idea...
"Hey, watch that machete and pass the loppers... say, have you see my eyeball?"
"Bounced through a minute ago right by Tom's thumb... is that it, lying next to my kneecap on the coral?"
One can easily see that the leadership will have its hands full to make this safe and meaningful for a bunch of uninitiated tourists - yikes!
Maybe seasoned TIGHARs can be broken out to lead various smaller groups... but it's getting clear, the 'broader' you make this mission, aka making it attractive to folks at the 'tour' level, the more stretched the resources for the serious research part of it can get.
Big challenge - kind of an Orient Express exercise - somebody has to safely run the train cross-continent while the murder-mystery party goes on. One nasty coral cut on some fat guy in horn rims and Bermuda shorts will demand some good medical attention fast, too. That is probably up to the tour company to provide for, one guesses - otherwise it's yank the brake cord and off the train for Suva or wherever it is they sail from, I guess (only twenty hours to Honolulu by Cigerette Boat over open seas, if calm...).
Seriously, it is a big deal to make this happen well, that much I can truly appreciate.