Talk:Deep Sparse Reef/@comment-38662675-20190306104415

You can actually snag similar resources from the underwater islands very early in, if you don't like dealing with the bleeders here. There's a gel sack that spawns right near the enforcement platform a short ways out, and typically a few rubies generate at the bottom of the island with the large wreck--albeit you do have to deal with a handful of bonesharks instead of the bleeders. It's usually enough to get you the aerogel you need for a prawn suit within the first few days after dealing with the Aurora drive core and prawn bay scanning, and then the rest can be extracted from the lost river for upgrades, once you have a cyclops and grapple arm. There's literally no reason you 'have' to come here, short of pod 19's data disk, which contains the very useful ultra high-capacity air tank. (Albeit, admittedly, this spares you having to loot a large wreck in the Dunes, sparing you a LOT of trouble with leviathan reapers, if you want the extra air early on.)