07/17/2011,09:02:34,okeanosexplorer,test 07/17/2011,09:03:19,okeanosexplorer,This is a live update from the NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer. This is Nick Kraus. The local shipboard time is 0300 hours. We are currently conducting multibeam mapping operations inside the Ecuador Exclusive Economic Zone. The ship's current heading is 220 degrees, and location is 00.32° N, 088.60° W. We anticipate an on-time deployment of the Little Hercules ROV at 0800 Mountain time later today (July 17) on dive target 2a. Next update will be at the top of the next hour. Thank You. 07/17/2011,11:02:28,okeanosexplorer,This is a live update from the NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer. This is Chris Pinero. The local shipboard time is 0502 hours. We are currently conducting multibeam mapping operations inside the Ecuador Exclusive Economic Zone. The ship's current heading is 042 degrees, and location is 00.50° N, 088.50° W. We anticipate an on-time deployment of the Little Hercules ROV at 0800 Mountain time later today (July 17) on dive target 2a. Next update will be at the top of the next hour. Thank You. 07/17/2011,12:00:01,okeanosexplorer,This is a live update from the NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer. This is Nick Kraus. The local shipboard time is 0600 hours. We are currently conducting multibeam mapping operations inside the Ecuador Exclusive Economic Zone. The ship's current heading is 042 degrees, and location is 00.61° N, 088.40° W. We anticipate an on-time deployment of the Little Hercules ROV at 0800 Mountain time later today (July 17) on dive target 2a. Next update will be at the top of the next hour. Thank You. 07/17/2011,12:34:22,Catalina Martinez,Okeanos, please let Webb know that Bob Knott will be here at the ISC in about an hour and can help troubleshoot the audio with him at that time 07/17/2011,12:36:28,okeanosexplorer,Okeanos acknowledges, Cat. 07/17/2011,12:37:16,Catalina Martinez,Thanks 07/17/2011,13:00:47,okeanosexplorer,This is a live update from the NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer. This is Chris Pinero. The local shipboard time is 0700 hours. We are currently inside the Ecuador Exclusive Economic Zone wrapping up our overnight multibeam mapping operations and maneuvering to today's dive location (target 2a). The ship's current heading is 019 degrees, and our present location is 00.73° N, 088.31° W. We anticipate an on-time deployment of the Little Hercules ROV at 0800 Mountain time, one hour from now. Next update will be at the top of the next hour. Thank You. 07/17/2011,13:59:21,okeanosexplorer,This is a live update from the NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer, America's ship for ocean exploration. This is Chris Pinero. The local shipboard time is 0800 hours. We are currently inside the Ecuador Exclusive Economic Zone on station for today's dive location (target 2a). The ship's present location is 00° 44.17' N, 088° 18.69' W. Pre-dive checks on the ROV are complete and we are awaiting deployment of the Little Hercules ROV within the next half-hour. No audio update as the ROV team is broadcasting across the RTS their pre-dive discussion. Thank you. 07/17/2011,14:08:03,okeanosexplorer,ECCs, good morning. Would you please check audio, video, and eventlogger connections please. We are preparing to launch the vehicle. 07/17/2011,14:13:04,okeanosexplorer,Surface current heading 230 at 1 knot 07/17/2011,14:27:50,Catalina Martinez,All's well at URI and we have Bob Knott here for a few hours if necessary to troubleshoot issues. Said all looks good on his end. If Webb is around, would be good to have him touch base with Bob through ISC HUB. 07/17/2011,14:28:19,okeanosexplorer,Roger that. Will get Webb on a headset. ECCs, are you hearing the pilots? 07/17/2011,14:32:28,stevehammond,Newport is hearing the pilots. 07/17/2011,14:34:24,Catalina Martinez,URI hears the pilots. Fabulous 07/17/2011,14:51:23,Catalina Martinez,Webb, I hear your voice the loudest, but can hear the pilots pretty well today too. Have to crank the audio up to hear from embedded audio in video. 07/17/2011,14:58:52,okeanosexplorer,ETA on bottom 10:05L 07/17/2011,15:01:11,okeanosexplorer,Cat, is the audio the same on the video feed as the rts? If so, you may not need the video feed audio (and need to have volume up on that) and potentially reduce any echo. This is Tim and not Webb, so just my thoughts. 07/17/2011,15:09:35,okeanosexplorer, This is a live update from the NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer. This is Tim Shank. The local time aboard the EX is 0910 hours. We are currently descending the ROV Little Hercules on Dive 04 of this program. Our seafloor target is a position 100m SW of our active hydrothermal plume signal (called 2a) near 1970 meters.  The dive will continue the exploration for hydorthermal activity on the Galapagos Rift where strong hydrothrmal plume signals were detected few weeks ago. Ship’s location is 00 44.20N 88 18.59W. We expect to arrive on the seafloor at approx. 1010 hours local. Thank You. 07/17/2011,15:13:04,okeanosexplorer,ECC Seattle and WHOI, please check in when ready. Thank you. 07/17/2011,15:15:35,santiagoherrera,good morning, this is Santiago Herrera and Catriona Munro at WHOI 07/17/2011,15:16:11,scottwhite,Seattle is here. We hear the EX and the pilots and WHOI. 07/17/2011,15:17:25,santiagoherrera,we hear Seattle and EX loud and clear, but not the pilots 07/17/2011,15:17:52,stevehammond,Newport is hearing everyone. 07/17/2011,15:29:35,stevehammond,The conversations going on simultaneously are essentially covering each other. At least here in Newport, the result is very little comprehension. 07/17/2011,15:30:51,santiagoherrera,apologies, we cannot hear the pilots so it's hard to tell if there are other conversations going on 07/17/2011,15:30:52,okeanosexplorer, I know. I have the traffic too. WHOI can not hear the pilots while others can. I think all other ECCs can hear the pilots. Just passing 1400m. 07/17/2011,15:31:32,stevehammond,Rgr! 07/17/2011,15:36:36,okeanosexplorer,1558m 07/17/2011,15:42:12,okeanosexplorer,ROV 1700m 07/17/2011,15:46:40,okeanosexplorer,ROV at 1800m Target 1970m 17m/min 07/17/2011,15:49:32,okeanosexplorer,1850m 07/17/2011,15:49:51,okeanosexplorer,1856m just camein to smokey area 07/17/2011,15:50:39,okeanosexplorer,a clear layer visible from Seirios 07/17/2011,15:51:01,okeanosexplorer,2.46C ROV CTD altitude flakey in plume 07/17/2011,15:51:40,okeanosexplorer,Seirios at 95m alt. 07/17/2011,15:52:07,okeanosexplorer,1903m ROV 07/17/2011,15:53:06,santiagoherrera,WHOI started recording EX1103L2_Dive04_7_17_11.1 07/17/2011,15:53:11,okeanosexplorer,Water still murkey. 07/17/2011,15:53:24,jamesholden,Passing through second layer of smoky water 07/17/2011,15:53:40,okeanosexplorer,LH at 40m alt. coming into another smokey plume layer 07/17/2011,15:53:57,okeanosexplorer,Depth 30m LH 07/17/2011,15:56:09,jamesholden,bottom in sight 07/17/2011,15:56:34,scottwhite,Pillows 07/17/2011,15:56:36,santiagoherrera,PIL 07/17/2011,15:56:57,scottwhite,sediment coating tops and filling pockets 07/17/2011,15:57:22,okeanosexplorer,older PIL here 07/17/2011,15:57:24,santiagoherrera,POC 07/17/2011,15:57:37,scottwhite,heavier than POC, I'd suggest 07/17/2011,15:58:00,okeanosexplorer,We are on bottom at 1963m total depth. 07/17/2011,16:00:30,scottwhite,pillows are meter-size, nice striations, no buds 07/17/2011,16:00:51,okeanosexplorer,Bottom water temp is 2.35C hdg is 020. 07/17/2011,16:01:12,santiagoherrera,DIVE CODES 07/17/2011,Taxa 07/17/2011,ACN - Actinaria (anemone) 07/17/2011,APH - Amphipod 07/17/2011,ART - Arthropod 07/17/2011,ASR - Asteroid 07/17/2011,BAR - Barnacle 07/17/2011,BIO - Biology (Unspecified) 07/17/2011,BIV - Bivalve 07/17/2011,BRA - Brachiopod 07/17/2011,BRY - Bryozoan 07/17/2011,CHI - Chiton 07/17/2011,CHN - Chondrichthyes 07/17/2011,CLA - Clams 07/17/2011,CNI - Cnidarian 07/17/2011,CON - Coconut 07/17/2011,COP - Copepods 07/17/2011,COR - Coral 07/17/2011,CRA - Crab 07/17/2011,CRI - Crinoid 07/17/2011,DAN - Dandelion 07/17/2011,ECN - echiuran 07/17/2011,EGG - egg (case) 07/17/2011,FEC - fecal (matter) 07/17/2011,FSH - Fish 07/17/2011,FOR - Foraminiferan 07/17/2011,GAS - Gastropods (not limpets) 07/17/2011,GRO - Gromiid 07/17/2011,HOL - Holutharian 07/17/2011,HYD - Hydroid 07/17/2011,ISO - Isopod 07/17/2011,JFH - Jellyfish 07/17/2011,LIM - Limpets 07/17/2011,LOB - Lobster 07/17/2011,MAT - Bacterial (Mat) 07/17/2011,MOL - Mollusk 07/17/2011,MUS - Mussels 07/17/2011,NUD - Nudibranch 07/17/2011,OCT - Octopus 07/17/2011,OPH - Ophiuroid 07/17/2011,PAG - Pagurid (hermit) 07/17/2011,PEN - Pennatulacean 07/17/2011,POL - Polychaete 07/17/2011,RIF - Riftia 07/17/2011,SCA - Scale (worm) 07/17/2011,SHI - Shrimp 07/17/2011,SPA - Spaghetti Worms 07/17/2011,SPO - Sponge 07/17/2011,SQA - Squat Lobster 07/17/2011,SQD - Squid 07/17/2011,STY - Stylasterid 07/17/2011,TUB - Tubeworms (not Riftia) 07/17/2011,TUN - Tunicate 07/17/2011,URC - Urchin 07/17/2011,USO - Unidentified Sessile Object 07/17/2011,WOD - Wood 07/17/2011,WOR - Worm 07/17/2011,XEN - Xenophyophoran 07/17/2011,ZOA - Zoanthid 07/17/2011,Lava Morphology 07/17/2011,TAL - Talus 07/17/2011,PIL - Pillow 07/17/2011,ENT - Entrail 07/17/2011,LOB - Lobate 07/17/2011,SHE - Sheet 07/17/2011,FOL - Folded 07/17/2011,JUM - Jumbled 07/17/2011,HAC - Hackly 07/17/2011,Sediment Cover 07/17/2011,LIG - Light 07/17/2011,POC - Partial/Pockets 07/17/2011,HEA - Heavy/Coalescent 07/17/2011,BLA - Blanket 07/17/2011,Feature 07/17/2011,CLI - Cliff 07/17/2011,COLL - Collapse 07/17/2011,CON - Contact 07/17/2011,FAU - Fault 07/17/2011,FIS - Fissure 07/17/2011,HYX - Hydrothermal 07/17/2011,PILL - Pillar 07/17/2011,HAY - Haystack 07/17/2011,ASG - Axial Summit Graben 07/17/2011,AVR - Axial Volcanic Ridge 07/17/2011, 07/17/2011,16:02:35,jamesholden,Video freeze in Seattle, lost audio 07/17/2011,16:02:46,santiagoherrera,we lost audio as well 07/17/2011,16:03:05,okeanosexplorer,Setting up the vehicles. Pilot discussions with Dave Lovalvo. 07/17/2011,16:03:07,santiagoherrera,cannot hear anything coming out of the RTS 07/17/2011,16:03:17,scottwhite,video back 07/17/2011,16:03:26,stevehammond,Lost audio in Newport but video is fine 07/17/2011,16:03:52,scottwhite,audio back 07/17/2011,16:04:00,jamesholden,Video and audio back 07/17/2011,16:04:02,santiagoherrera,video is fine here at WHOI 07/17/2011,16:04:16,stevehammond,Rgr, audio back. 07/17/2011,16:05:53,scottwhite,serios video feed 07/17/2011,16:08:49,catrionamunro,ROV view 07/17/2011,16:09:39,catrionamunro,SHUI 07/17/2011,16:09:39,santiagoherrera,SHI 07/17/2011,16:09:52,catrionamunro,SPO 07/17/2011,16:09:59,okeanosexplorer,Okay, we are on the move- on Dive 4 07/17/2011,16:10:11,okeanosexplorer,No walls in either sonar. 07/17/2011,16:10:24,catrionamunro,SHI 07/17/2011,16:10:45,okeanosexplorer,PIL 07/17/2011,16:10:57,okeanosexplorer,Troubleshooting audio at ECCs. 07/17/2011,16:12:09,okeanosexplorer,Dive ID 1103L2_Dive04_11_07_17 07/17/2011,16:12:31,Bob Embley,we are getting extreme echoing at times here in Newport 07/17/2011,16:13:29,okeanosexplorer,PIL sediment cover high on top of pillows 07/17/2011,16:14:19,santiagoherrera,EX could you double check the dive ID, the last three dives we were using the following nomenclature: EX1103L2_DiveXX_mm_dd_yy 07/17/2011,16:14:42,santiagoherrera,was this nomenclature changed for today's dive? 07/17/2011,16:15:30,okeanosexplorer,Check yesterday's log- Webb submitted a formal nomenclature in the event log at the beginning of yesterday's dive. 07/17/2011,16:16:47,okeanosexplorer,Ship is moving NE. Target 2a is 80m distant. 07/17/2011,16:16:50,catrionamunro,FSH 07/17/2011,16:16:57,okeanosexplorer,FSH with copepod parasite. 07/17/2011,16:17:39,okeanosexplorer,Panning looking for walls or fresher features. Nothing in the sonars. 07/17/2011,16:17:58,santiagoherrera,I just checked yesterday's log, this is what it says "Today's dive is EX1103L2_Dive02_7_15_11   the date on the end is optional" 07/17/2011,16:18:37,santiagoherrera,I mean the day before yesterday 07/17/2011,16:18:45,scottwhite,Pillows, less striations, no buds 07/17/2011,16:19:05,scottwhite,sediment cover still dusting tops and filling pockets 07/17/2011,16:19:07,okeanosexplorer,Yes, scroll down. I believe there on yesterday's dive Webb made a change. 07/17/2011,16:20:10,okeanosexplorer,EX1103L2_DIVE04_20110717 - this is from Webb today. 07/17/2011,16:20:25,okeanosexplorer,PIL more elongate? 07/17/2011,16:21:12,okeanosexplorer,Still working on audio from the watch leaders station. I do not have a headset on at the moment - Tim 07/17/2011,16:21:24,okeanosexplorer,HOL 07/17/2011,16:21:58,scottwhite,must be nice to not have the headset for a few moments :-D 07/17/2011,16:22:05,okeanosexplorer,*HOL red - peniagone-like 07/17/2011,16:22:16,jamesholden,SHI 07/17/2011,16:22:17,santiagoherrera,OK, we will note the change and account for it 07/17/2011,16:22:20,okeanosexplorer,Ha. Sensory deprivation now.... 07/17/2011,16:22:34,okeanosexplorer,Thank you Santiago. Sorry that wasn't clear at the top of the dive. 07/17/2011,16:22:37,jamesholden,Video freeze in Seattle 07/17/2011,16:22:42,okeanosexplorer,another red HOL 07/17/2011,16:22:53,scottwhite,PIL, nice striations, very round 07/17/2011,16:23:16,jamesholden,Video restored in Seattle 07/17/2011, 07/17/2011,16:23:52,okeanosexplorer,Heading is 330 as we continue NE wiggle waggilng the ROV back and forth along the track. No visible features in the sonar. 07/17/2011,16:24:38,okeanosexplorer,FIS 07/17/2011,16:24:52,okeanosexplorer,trending due east 090 07/17/2011,16:26:05,okeanosexplorer,We are continuing the ships move to the NE and exploring within the watch circle of the tether as we go forward. 07/17/2011,16:26:46,okeanosexplorer,Heading is now 055 07/17/2011,16:26:47,jamesholden,Old PIL, POC 07/17/2011,16:27:38,santiagoherrera,thanks for clarifying that Tim :) 07/17/2011,16:29:49,okeanosexplorer,ECCs, can you confirm you are hearing me. 07/17/2011,16:31:01,jamesholden,We hear you in Seattle, or we heard you just a few moments ago 07/17/2011,16:31:14,stevehammond,Pretty quiet on the RTS 07/17/2011,16:31:31,jamesholden,We hear you, Tim 07/17/2011,16:31:31,scottwhite,PIL still pretty heavy on the sediment POC-to-HEA 07/17/2011,16:31:35,stevehammond,Ah, loud and clear, Tim. 07/17/2011,16:32:44,catrionamunro,SHI 07/17/2011,16:33:29,catrionamunro,SPO 07/17/2011,16:35:17,okeanosexplorer,1955m hdg 075 07/17/2011,16:36:53,stevehammond,Interesting that Santiago's RTS comms are all doubled. 07/17/2011,16:38:16,scottwhite,PIL, tend to stick up more, more meter scale relief 07/17/2011,16:39:02,santiagoherrera,SHI 07/17/2011,16:39:41,catrionamunro,SHI 07/17/2011,16:39:59,Bob Embley,we're getting severe echoing on the seattle and Whoi channels in Newport 07/17/2011,16:40:03,stevehammond,Seattle comms are doubled, too. 07/17/2011,16:40:53,okeanosexplorer,Roger that Newport. Will let webb know. 07/17/2011,16:41:07,catrionamunro,CRA 07/17/2011,16:41:15,scottwhite,fissure, N-S trend, crossing graben 07/17/2011,16:41:24,scottwhite,on edge of drop-off to N 07/17/2011,16:41:41,scottwhite,How tall is this wall? 07/17/2011,16:42:03,scottwhite,Wall edge trends mostly E-W 07/17/2011,16:42:12,jamesholden,Video freeze in Seattle 07/17/2011,16:42:30,scottwhite,audio down 07/17/2011,16:42:36,santiagoherrera,video erratic at WHOI 07/17/2011,16:42:43,catrionamunro,FSH 07/17/2011,16:42:46,santiagoherrera,audio over the RTS also down 07/17/2011,16:43:05,scottwhite,video up 07/17/2011,16:43:25,santiagoherrera,audio back 07/17/2011,16:43:59,okeanosexplorer,I am hearing an echo here too. 07/17/2011,16:44:15,okeanosexplorer,Placed a target here- Wall E/W. 07/17/2011,16:44:33,okeanosexplorer,"Graben" is 10m deep. 07/17/2011,16:44:58,scottwhite,wall is 4-5m drop-off 07/17/2011,16:45:22,catrionamunro,Seirios view 07/17/2011,16:45:28,santiagoherrera,HOL 07/17/2011,16:45:39,scottwhite,running along N-facing wall of graben 07/17/2011,16:45:59,catrionamunro,ROV view 07/17/2011,16:45:59,scottwhite,rov view 07/17/2011,16:46:09,scottwhite,PIL 07/17/2011,16:46:16,scottwhite,POC 07/17/2011,16:48:03,scottwhite,view of graben wall: mostly truncated pillows, older material, same age as top 07/17/2011,16:48:08,catrionamunro,SHI 07/17/2011,16:48:16,scottwhite,TAL, broken PIL 07/17/2011,16:48:52,catrionamunro,POL 07/17/2011,16:48:55,Bob Embley,In talus at step on north facing graben wall 07/17/2011,16:48:57,scottwhite,second scarp, also N-facing 07/17/2011,16:50:48,scottwhite,9m scarp 07/17/2011,16:51:34,jamesholden,CRA 07/17/2011,16:52:10,okeanosexplorer,CRA - brachyuran 07/17/2011,16:52:16,okeanosexplorer,depth 1963 07/17/2011,16:52:22,scottwhite, Tal at base of scarp 07/17/2011,16:52:47,santiagoherrera,broken PIL 07/17/2011,16:52:54,santiagoherrera,FIS 07/17/2011,16:52:57,Bob Embley,FIS in graben bottom 07/17/2011,16:53:26,santiagoherrera,POL 07/17/2011,16:53:32,scottwhite,Fissure next to wall, two steps in wall 07/17/2011,16:53:37,scottwhite,smoke from the north 07/17/2011,16:53:42,santiagoherrera,smoke 07/17/2011,16:53:44,Bob Embley,Some white stained cracks in bottom of graben 07/17/2011,16:53:56,okeanosexplorer,smokey water, turning to investigate 07/17/2011,16:54:03,santiagoherrera,HOL pelagic 07/17/2011,16:54:21,scottwhite,think there's the contact ith recent lava 07/17/2011,16:55:22,santiagoherrera,MAT? 07/17/2011,16:55:37,okeanosexplorer,hdg 271 d1965m 07/17/2011,16:55:45,jamesholden,Extensive white stainin on PIL 07/17/2011,16:56:15,scottwhite,total of 25 m drop along N-facing wall of ASG 07/17/2011,16:56:44,okeanosexplorer,Planning Seirios move to accommodate investigation 07/17/2011,17:02:17,jamesholden,Video down 07/17/2011,17:02:24,okeanosexplorer,Planning to move north. Note nav has us about 70m East of where we saw a Wall e/W with two steps. 07/17/2011,17:02:26,catrionamunro,Video fine at WHOI 07/17/2011,17:02:35,okeanosexplorer,Thank you. 07/17/2011,17:02:46,jamesholden,video up 07/17/2011,17:04:18,santiagoherrera,EX, what's our current heading? 07/17/2011,17:04:38,jamesholden,Audio and video are erratic 07/17/2011,17:04:48,santiagoherrera,hdg 005, thanks 07/17/2011,17:05:08,santiagoherrera,correction 050 07/17/2011,17:06:03,santiagoherrera,1956m 07/17/2011,17:08:14,catrionamunro,SQA? 07/17/2011,17:08:20,santiagoherrera,hdg S 07/17/2011,17:08:24,catrionamunro,FIS 07/17/2011,17:08:48,santiagoherrera,hdg 244 07/17/2011,17:09:21,santiagoherrera,hdg E 07/17/2011,17:10:08,catrionamunro,SHI 07/17/2011,17:10:15,santiagoherrera,following FIS W-E 07/17/2011,17:11:00,catrionamunro,CRA 07/17/2011,17:11:34,santiagoherrera,hdg N 07/17/2011,17:11:41,catrionamunro,SHI 07/17/2011,17:11:49,scottwhite,fissure E-W at bse of graben 07/17/2011,17:11:59,scottwhite,mixed LOB and PIL 07/17/2011,17:12:01,catrionamunro,CRA 07/17/2011,17:12:12,scottwhite,sediment is still coating surfaces 07/17/2011,17:12:21,scottwhite,no visible glassy luster 07/17/2011,17:14:17,santiagoherrera,looking at S wall 07/17/2011,17:15:12,catrionamunro,SHI 07/17/2011,17:15:30,catrionamunro, SHI 07/17/2011,17:15:48,catrionamunro,CRA 07/17/2011,17:16:16,scottwhite,n-facing wall of ASG, turn to E 07/17/2011,17:16:27,scottwhite,broken PIL, little TAL 07/17/2011,17:16:39,scottwhite,FIss following along wall 07/17/2011,17:17:28,scottwhite,TAL, sub-meter size pil 07/17/2011,17:19:27,Bob Embley,Turning east to go along base of north-facing graben wall 07/17/2011,17:19:32,catrionamunro,SHI 07/17/2011,17:19:45,santiagoherrera,CRA 07/17/2011,17:20:25,Bob Embley,White stained E-W fissures/cracks 07/17/2011,17:21:25,Bob Embley,Wall is to our right (south) 07/17/2011,17:21:45,catrionamunro,CHN 07/17/2011,17:22:07,santiagoherrera,chimera 07/17/2011,17:23:19,okeanosexplorer,Depth 1961 hdg 124 07/17/2011,17:23:40,jamesholden,video and audio down 07/17/2011,17:24:06,jamesholden,video up 07/17/2011,17:24:10,jamesholden,audio up 07/17/2011,17:24:36,okeanosexplorer,older lavas in this graben? 07/17/2011,17:24:48,catrionamunro,CRA 07/17/2011,17:25:31,santiagoherrera,PIL 07/17/2011,17:26:03,santiagoherrera,FIS 07/17/2011,17:26:18,scottwhite,Fissure heading e-w 07/17/2011,17:26:29,scottwhite,narrow fissure, hard to see bottom 07/17/2011,17:28:10,okeanosexplorer,large FIS e/w still older material on bottom 07/17/2011,17:29:08,santiagoherrera,cRA 07/17/2011,17:31:39,Bob Embley,On large fissure within graben with staining and crabs on wall 07/17/2011,17:31:46,okeanosexplorer,FIS was abouhdg 125 07/17/2011,17:32:35,santiagoherrera,smokey water 07/17/2011,17:32:36,okeanosexplorer,Sorry, heading is 134 07/17/2011,17:33:01,scottwhite,blocky lava, iron oxide staining, smokey 07/17/2011,17:34:08,santiagoherrera,CRA 07/17/2011,17:34:54,santiagoherrera,FIS 07/17/2011,17:37:11,santiagoherrera,CRA 07/17/2011,17:37:23,santiagoherrera,ROV drifting to the N 07/17/2011,17:38:44,santiagoherrera,hdg 166 07/17/2011,17:39:27,Bob Embley,Just got to southern wall of main graben 07/17/2011,17:39:30,santiagoherrera,hdg E along the base of Southern wall 07/17/2011,17:39:45,santiagoherrera,CRA 07/17/2011,17:40:27,jamesholden,smokey water 07/17/2011,17:40:28,scottwhite,Lobates and flattened pillows 07/17/2011,17:40:36,scottwhite,FISS 07/17/2011,17:40:39,santiagoherrera,FIS 07/17/2011,17:41:02,santiagoherrera,hdg 0240 07/17/2011,17:41:18,santiagoherrera,ignore heading post 07/17/2011,17:42:16,jamesholden,video freeze, lost audio 07/17/2011,17:42:55,santiagoherrera,lost audio 07/17/2011,17:43:22,jamesholden,video/audio up 07/17/2011,17:43:42,santiagoherrera,audio back 07/17/2011,17:44:05,okeanosexplorer,Don't know why you are getting cut outs. 07/17/2011,17:45:09,santiagoherrera,CRA 07/17/2011,17:45:16,scottwhite,CON 07/17/2011,17:45:18,santiagoherrera,HOL 07/17/2011,17:46:39,catrionamunro,CRA 07/17/2011,17:47:16,scottwhite,10-12 CRAB in FOV 07/17/2011,17:48:07,okeanosexplorer,turning E to traverse along wall 07/17/2011,17:48:09,santiagoherrera,fresh looking lava flow 07/17/2011,17:48:11,scottwhite,directly above contact with recent lava LOB 07/17/2011,17:48:22,okeanosexplorer,particles of different sizes in water column 07/17/2011,17:48:26,okeanosexplorer,big contact area 07/17/2011,17:48:30,scottwhite,crabs like the recent lava 07/17/2011,17:48:58,scottwhite,lobate fills fissure 07/17/2011,17:49:11,scottwhite,crab <3 lava 07/17/2011,17:49:48,santiagoherrera,many CRA :) 07/17/2011,17:50:06,scottwhite,HYD LOB+PIL 07/17/2011,17:50:19,stevehammond,Me, too, Scott! 07/17/2011,17:50:24,santiagoherrera,HYX 07/17/2011,17:50:42,santiagoherrera,diffuse water venting 07/17/2011,17:50:43,jamesholden,diffuse flow around margins of PIL, CRA, MAT, POL 07/17/2011,17:51:07,santiagoherrera,CRA 07/17/2011,17:51:36,santiagoherrera,CRA in LOB margin in venting fluid 07/17/2011,17:52:08,santiagoherrera,MAT 07/17/2011,17:52:58,santiagoherrera,no evident sessile fauna 07/17/2011,17:53:45,catrionamunro,Could we get the lasers on? 07/17/2011,17:54:42,stevehammond,Seattle comms are so loud they are clipping. 07/17/2011,17:55:38,catrionamunro,CRA 07/17/2011,17:55:57,santiagoherrera,we hear Seattle at a "normal" volume here 07/17/2011,17:56:43,scottwhite,looks like a rainstorm of particles, hard to see 07/17/2011,17:56:53,scottwhite,put on the windshield wipers on LH 07/17/2011,17:57:31,santiagoherrera,profuse diffuse HYX venting 07/17/2011,17:57:47,scottwhite,lobate flow coming downslope of small low mound 07/17/2011,17:57:48,okeanosexplorer,CTD temp 2.6C depth 1965 hdg 142 07/17/2011,17:58:13,okeanosexplorer,turning to 155 and it rising up 07/17/2011,17:58:17,okeanosexplorer,changing watch.... 07/17/2011,17:58:41,santiagoherrera,MAT 07/17/2011,17:58:52,scottwhite,a lot of staining on the wall ahead 07/17/2011,17:59:16,santiagoherrera,venting on Southern wall as well 07/17/2011,17:59:25,santiagoherrera,POL 07/17/2011,18:00:11,santiagoherrera,abundant particles in the venting fluid 07/17/2011,18:00:13,scottwhite,Diffuse flow out of PIL 07/17/2011,18:00:34,santiagoherrera,looking on top of Southern wall 07/17/2011,18:00:55,jamesholden,Extensive MAT covering PIL, diffuse flow from between PIL 07/17/2011,18:01:16,scottwhite,still in recent lava flow 07/17/2011,18:02:10,Bob Embley,Fresh lava, getting out of high flow vent area. We saw extensive diffuse venting through young flows. with some light colored smoke in places 07/17/2011,18:02:24,jamesholden,video down, lost audio 07/17/2011,18:02:58,santiagoherrera,denser smoke 07/17/2011,18:03:07,santiagoherrera,lost audio 07/17/2011,18:03:14,stevehammond,Newport video fine; may have lost audio. 07/17/2011,18:03:22,jamesholden,A/V up 07/17/2011,18:03:23,scottwhite,TAL and covered by recent lobate 07/17/2011,18:03:25,santiagoherrera,audio back at WHOI 07/17/2011,18:03:37,santiagoherrera,oxide stains 07/17/2011,18:03:47,scottwhite,nice streams of lava coming off the talus 07/17/2011,18:03:59,Bob Embley,REally glassy lava lobe coming down wall 07/17/2011,18:04:03,catrionamunro,CRA 07/17/2011,18:04:08,santiagoherrera,LOB 07/17/2011,18:05:21,santiagoherrera,CON 07/17/2011,18:05:40,Bob Embley,Glassy lava flowing around older lavas 07/17/2011,18:06:39,santiagoherrera,TAL 07/17/2011,18:06:46,catrionamunro,CRA 07/17/2011,18:06:47,santiagoherrera,broken PIL 07/17/2011,18:06:56,scottwhite,con 07/17/2011,18:07:07,scottwhite,recent lobate to right, tal to left 07/17/2011,18:07:26,scottwhite,talus ramp, down steep to left 07/17/2011,18:07:41,scottwhite,older broken pillow talus 07/17/2011,18:08:07,catrionamunro,SHI 07/17/2011,18:09:20,scottwhite,TAL 07/17/2011,18:11:07,catrionamunro,HOL 07/17/2011,18:11:09,catrionamunro,SHI 07/17/2011,18:12:44,santiagoherrera,1956m 07/17/2011,18:12:55,catrionamunro,SHI 07/17/2011,18:14:01,santiagoherrera,looked over N wall 07/17/2011,18:14:12,santiagoherrera,turning back into graben 07/17/2011,18:14:30,santiagoherrera,heading S 07/17/2011,18:15:50,catrionamunro,MAT? 07/17/2011,18:18:00,catrionamunro,CRA 07/17/2011,18:18:23,okeanosexplorer,ECCs, do you still have audio? 07/17/2011,18:18:30,scottwhite,audio here 07/17/2011,18:19:35,coquillerex, yes audio 07/17/2011,18:20:27,catrionamunro,FIS 07/17/2011,18:20:47,okeanosexplorer,Hdg 135 07/17/2011,18:20:50,okeanosexplorer,on FIS 07/17/2011,18:22:38,okeanosexplorer,Lost fresh flow and have come into complex lobates with fissure cutting through 07/17/2011,18:22:40,catrionamunro,WHOI has lost audio 07/17/2011,18:23:05,scottwhite,lost audio 07/17/2011,18:23:06,jamesholden,A/V down 07/17/2011,18:23:15,scottwhite,serios feed up 07/17/2011,18:23:23,scottwhite,audio up 07/17/2011,18:23:35,catrionamunro,WHOI can hear again 07/17/2011,18:24:19,stevehammond,Seattle comms are mostly unintelligible because of overloading. 07/17/2011,18:26:24,okeanosexplorer,hdg 012 07/17/2011,18:26:33,okeanosexplorer,coming up wall and seeing PIL field 07/17/2011,18:26:47,okeanosexplorer,Checking to see if there is a graben to the north. 07/17/2011,18:26:55,Bob Embley,Serios view 07/17/2011,18:27:01,okeanosexplorer,We can look this direction for about 30m 07/17/2011,18:27:28,okeanosexplorer,small FIS 07/17/2011,18:27:44,catrionamunro,ROV view 07/17/2011,18:29:48,Webb Pinner,PMEL can you please confirm that you are muting your mic when you are not talking? I believe the echo we're are hearing is caused by an open mic at your location. 07/17/2011,18:30:23,jamesholden,Our mic is closed whenever we are not talking. We turn the speaker volume down when we talk. 07/17/2011,18:31:00,Webb Pinner,Excellent, thank you 07/17/2011,18:33:02,okeanosexplorer,located what we believe to be the active graben and heading east 07/17/2011,18:34:32,okeanosexplorer,northern wall on our left- hdg 078 07/17/2011,18:35:34,okeanosexplorer,Drops down here- on a promintory- at tether length while ship moves. last few min had good video from Seirios 07/17/2011,18:35:48,okeanosexplorer,depth 1945 hdg 121 07/17/2011,18:35:58,okeanosexplorer,anticipating ship's move 07/17/2011,18:41:26,okeanosexplorer,Currently ~120m from active "Diffuse flow, white staining" site. 07/17/2011,18:41:41,Bob Embley,Okeanos, could you type in the present longitude of the LH in dec. deg.? 07/17/2011,18:42:43,santiagoherrera,lost audio over the RTS 07/17/2011,18:43:49,okeanosexplorer,Ship's location- 88 18.390 00 44.267 07/17/2011,18:44:56,santiagoherrera,audio is back 07/17/2011,18:45:00,okeanosexplorer,hdg is 109 07/17/2011,18:45:10,catrionamunro,CRA 07/17/2011,18:45:56,santiagoherrera,extinct chimney 07/17/2011,18:46:04,scottwhite,HYX 07/17/2011,18:46:06,catrionamunro,FSH 07/17/2011,18:46:31,santiagoherrera,large sulfide structure 07/17/2011,18:46:51,Bob Embley,Sulfide chimney has flanges on side 07/17/2011,18:47:16,stevehammond,Large extinct sulfide structure with flanges and multiple vents. 07/17/2011,18:48:24,santiagoherrera,tube scars 07/17/2011,18:48:26,santiagoherrera,OPH 07/17/2011,18:48:30,santiagoherrera,CRA 07/17/2011,18:49:14,okeanosexplorer,88 18.377 00 44.268 07/17/2011,18:50:09,okeanosexplorer,at extinct chimney 07/17/2011,18:50:48,catrionamunro,PIL 07/17/2011,18:51:59,Bob Embley,Seems like turning off listen on Seattle comm may have helped Newport re. clipping 07/17/2011,18:52:14,okeanosexplorer,moving to the south- looking at southern wall, and now on top -1951m 07/17/2011,18:53:22,catrionamunro,ASR? 07/17/2011,18:55:35,santiagoherrera,brisingid ASR 07/17/2011,18:55:37,okeanosexplorer,stopping now for ship's move to the SE to traverse along the active graben. 07/17/2011,18:57:33,okeanosexplorer,depth 1954 12m drop into the graben 07/17/2011,18:57:40,okeanosexplorer,turning to come east 07/17/2011,18:59:03,jamesholden,x 07/17/2011,18:59:04,jamesholden,. 07/17/2011,18:59:43,jamesholden,Dropping to bottom of FIS 07/17/2011,19:00:21,scottwhite,"What a difference 20 meters makes" Beautiful. 07/17/2011,19:00:37,okeanosexplorer,noting increase in murk in the water; fresher flow in bottom of graben 07/17/2011,19:01:27,scottwhite,hovering 12 m above graben floor, looks like recent flow again within graben 07/17/2011,19:01:48,okeanosexplorer,We are expecting to leave bottom in 2:15min - 15:15 local. 07/17/2011,19:02:27,okeanosexplorer,half way through the move that lets' us get down into the graben and along the wall southern wall. 07/17/2011,19:02:36,jamesholden,A/V down 07/17/2011,19:02:51,okeanosexplorer,Don't know why... 07/17/2011,19:03:27,jamesholden,A/V up 07/17/2011,19:03:34,santiagoherrera,same here 07/17/2011,19:03:45,catrionamunro,ASR 07/17/2011,19:04:23,santiagoherrera,CRA 07/17/2011,19:05:05,scottwhite,recent lobate flow again 07/17/2011,19:05:05,okeanosexplorer,ECCs, you still down? 07/17/2011,19:05:16,okeanosexplorer,on fresher lava here 07/17/2011,19:05:20,Bob Embley,On young lobate flow bottom of graben 07/17/2011,19:05:27,scottwhite,slightly dusted with sediment, not enough to fill pockets 07/17/2011,19:05:31,santiagoherrera,A/V back here at wHOI 07/17/2011,19:05:40,jamesholden,A/V back in Seattle 07/17/2011,19:06:00,okeanosexplorer,troubleshooting....hdg is 27 07/17/2011,19:07:15,jamesholden,Recent PIL across bottom of graben 07/17/2011,19:07:27,okeanosexplorer,Moving east now - set up looks good. 07/17/2011,19:09:29,okeanosexplorer,hdg is 102 07/17/2011,19:09:34,okeanosexplorer,depth 1962 07/17/2011,19:09:52,okeanosexplorer,88 18.348 00 44.246 07/17/2011,19:09:58,okeanosexplorer,ship's pos 07/17/2011,19:10:18,santiagoherrera,thanks Tim, that's very helpful 07/17/2011,19:11:19,okeanosexplorer,on the northern wall. tether caught on promintory 07/17/2011,19:12:40,catrionamunro,Seirios view 07/17/2011,19:14:35,catrionamunro,ROV view 07/17/2011,19:14:39,okeanosexplorer,tether caught- working on the untangle. 07/17/2011,19:15:52,santiagoherrera,off bottom 07/17/2011,19:16:51,catrionamunro,on bottom 07/17/2011,19:18:14,okeanosexplorer,1955m 07/17/2011,19:19:02,catrionamunro,SPO 07/17/2011,19:19:10,catrionamunro,COR anthomastus 07/17/2011,19:19:39,okeanosexplorer,88 18.349 00 44.233 07/17/2011,19:20:04,okeanosexplorer,re-acquired graben seafloor 07/17/2011,19:20:28,okeanosexplorer,iron-staining on margins 07/17/2011,19:20:29,Bob Embley,On young lava again 07/17/2011,19:20:40,okeanosexplorer,trying to get to southern wall 07/17/2011,19:20:50,okeanosexplorer,murky water again 07/17/2011,19:21:28,okeanosexplorer,hdg is 180 going for southern wall- so crossing the graben- nothing in sonar 07/17/2011,19:22:03,jamesholden,A/V down 07/17/2011,19:22:35,okeanosexplorer,7m off bottom to get sonar vision- southern wall is 40m away 07/17/2011,19:22:38,jamesholden,A/V up 07/17/2011,19:23:02,okeanosexplorer,on bottom and lots of iron staining 07/17/2011,19:23:03,jamesholden,FeO staining between PIL 07/17/2011,19:23:12,santiagoherrera,oxide staining 07/17/2011,19:23:18,okeanosexplorer,graben is 43m deep and 83m wide here 07/17/2011,19:23:53,okeanosexplorer,ship move in to get to southern wall- may do video here while waiting.... 07/17/2011,19:24:06,okeanosexplorer,okay, here we go. 07/17/2011,19:24:16,okeanosexplorer,low relief lobates 07/17/2011,19:24:27,okeanosexplorer,hdg 172 07/17/2011,19:24:34,okeanosexplorer,depth 1963m 07/17/2011,19:24:46,okeanosexplorer,HOL red 07/17/2011,19:24:52,okeanosexplorer,end of tether 07/17/2011,19:25:23,okeanosexplorer,CRA brachyuran 07/17/2011,19:25:36,okeanosexplorer,10m more needed to get to wall... 07/17/2011,19:25:46,scottwhite,recent lava LOB 07/17/2011,19:25:55,okeanosexplorer,I hope you geo folks are liking the view.... 07/17/2011,19:26:11,scottwhite, :-O 07/17/2011,19:26:29,okeanosexplorer,nothing more in the sonar but the wall 07/17/2011,19:26:31,okeanosexplorer,end of tether 07/17/2011,19:26:42,okeanosexplorer,hdg 185 07/17/2011,19:27:26,okeanosexplorer,While we are waiting for a ship's move, do you have thoughts on a location for diving tomorrow? 07/17/2011,19:27:32,catrionamunro,SHI 07/17/2011,19:27:41,okeanosexplorer,SHI -nematocarcinid 07/17/2011,19:27:47,scottwhite,Jim was thinking 1a? 07/17/2011,19:28:16,scottwhite,HAC young flow 07/17/2011,19:28:53,okeanosexplorer,Okay, for 1a, we do a 6.5 hour transit, then a CTD (if possible), pick a point and dive. 07/17/2011,19:29:37,okeanosexplorer,You think we are done here? now getting into ropey flows 07/17/2011,19:29:52,santiagoherrera,facing wall 07/17/2011,19:29:59,scottwhite,scarp, with lobates, short bench 1m 07/17/2011,19:30:45,jamesholden,Regarding whether we are done, it depends. I'd be inclined to move on unless we find booming smokers at the end of the dive that we hadn't documented properly. 07/17/2011,19:31:31,jamesholden,Either way we could go onto 1a tomorrow. 07/17/2011,19:31:31,okeanosexplorer,wall at now with bench- 88 18.355 00 44.201 ship 07/17/2011,19:32:21,okeanosexplorer,turning to move east along the base of the southern wall and zig zagging- depth now 1963 07/17/2011,19:32:43,okeanosexplorer,hdg 048 coming south on a zag 07/17/2011,19:32:52,okeanosexplorer,HOL white 07/17/2011,19:32:55,catrionamunro,SHI 07/17/2011,19:34:11,jamesholden,Recent PIL contact 07/17/2011,19:34:40,catrionamunro,SHI 07/17/2011,19:37:15,okeanosexplorer,The ship moves have been more 100 than 090 degrees after moving south. 07/17/2011,19:37:27,jamesholden,Lat-Long please? 07/17/2011,19:37:40,jamesholden,Sorry, just say it 07/17/2011,19:37:51,jamesholden,I mean SAW it 07/17/2011,19:37:52,okeanosexplorer,First wall is 30m away to the south. 07/17/2011,19:38:39,okeanosexplorer,FSH synaphobranchus eel 07/17/2011,19:41:59,santiagoherrera,lost audio 07/17/2011,19:42:05,jamesholden,A/V down 07/17/2011,19:42:30,jamesholden,A/V up 07/17/2011,19:43:05,okeanosexplorer,The current lava flow had the west/east length so far of over 70m. The graben when we crossed it (with fresh lava) was 83-90m 07/17/2011,19:43:14,okeanosexplorer,Seeing contacts of fresh flow 07/17/2011,19:46:12,catrionamunro,CRA 07/17/2011,19:47:14,catrionamunro,CRA 07/17/2011,19:47:39,okeanosexplorer,The base of the wall of the graben is where the contact of the fresh/older lava occurs. The bench has been much reduced with the more southerly wall to which the bench was attached was 40m away 07/17/2011,19:48:58,santiagoherrera,smokey water 07/17/2011,19:49:02,okeanosexplorer,Both walls have been lost. Some concern over Seirios getting dragged into a wall that can't be seen. Still maintaining contact with fresh lava and base of bench. 07/17/2011,19:49:42,scottwhite,graben reduces in depth eastward on the multibeam map 07/17/2011,19:49:56,scottwhite,not unexpected that we might lose walls 07/17/2011,19:51:04,okeanosexplorer,I expected to lose walls- and have told the pilots durnig and before the dive. Following along contact still. No defined wall to the south- despite coming up and looking. Can turn south to look for wall, but I prefer to make tracks east. Our movements have slowed. 07/17/2011,19:51:37,scottwhite,let's make tracks E. 07/17/2011,19:51:58,santiagoherrera,agree 07/17/2011,19:52:03,jamesholden,Make tracks E, would be great if we could reach -88.304 by end of dive, but may be too far away 07/17/2011,19:52:09,okeanosexplorer,I'd like to be on a wall right now. Not sure how productive it is to follow a contact....although the expectation is that this will turn into a wall at some point. 07/17/2011,19:52:28,okeanosexplorer,Pilot asked for a nothern move to put Seirios behind LH. 07/17/2011,19:52:46,santiagoherrera,cON 07/17/2011,19:52:50,Bob Embley,Lava alomst filling graben here 07/17/2011,19:53:11,catrionamunro,MAT 07/17/2011,19:53:16,catrionamunro,disregard that 07/17/2011,19:53:31,okeanosexplorer,I asked for a speed increase, but the terrain is not amenable. I will check again. Picking up the wall in the sonar. 07/17/2011,19:53:39,scottwhite,good shots of young lava on older lobates 07/17/2011,19:54:12,okeanosexplorer,Looks like a good rock dive to me. :) 07/17/2011,19:55:42,okeanosexplorer,Came up to check for a wall- coming back down in to contact area. 07/17/2011,19:56:04,catrionamunro,SPO 07/17/2011,19:56:10,scottwhite,fault sliver 07/17/2011,19:56:41,scottwhite,old pillow "wall" structure with recent lava flowed around both sides 07/17/2011,19:58:32,okeanosexplorer,Talking about tether issues and wrapping... trying to make good headway...the pilots need a northern move.... 07/17/2011,20:00:26,okeanosexplorer,Having to move the ship north to move Seirios north so that one can be behind the other. 07/17/2011,20:00:30,okeanosexplorer,This is a live update from the NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer. This is Tim Shank. The local time aboard the EX is 1400 hours. We are currently traversing over the seafloor following a contact of newer and older lava flows. We are continuing the exploration for geological and biological features of the Galapagos Rift where strong hydrothrmal plume signals were detected few weeks ago. Ship’s location is 00 44.19N, 88 18.27W. Thank You. 07/17/2011,20:01:30,jamesholden,A/V down 07/17/2011,20:02:13,jamesholden,A/V up 07/17/2011,20:03:55,catrionamunro,off bottom 07/17/2011,20:09:12,santiagoherrera,on bottom 07/17/2011,20:10:03,Bob Embley,We can't really participate in a science discussion with the cross talk 07/17/2011,20:10:14,okeanosexplorer,Apologies. 07/17/2011,20:10:47,stevehammond,Missed most of your commentary on next dives. Reckon we can discuss during ascent, though. 07/17/2011,20:11:16,catrionamunro,Sonar view 07/17/2011,20:11:24,stevehammond,No apologies necessary! All important stuff. 07/17/2011,20:12:47,jamesholden,I believe that we are beginning to get into the density inversion area 07/17/2011,20:13:27,okeanosexplorer,Agreed. 07/17/2011,20:13:59,catrionamunro,CRA 07/17/2011,20:14:05,Bob Embley,Old fallen chimneys 07/17/2011,20:14:47,scottwhite,Big old chims, additional sulfides ahead 07/17/2011,20:15:48,santiagoherrera,HYX 07/17/2011,20:16:25,jamesholden,Highlight video 07/17/2011,20:16:57,catrionamunro,SQA 07/17/2011,20:17:02,stevehammond,I wonder if we could just have science talk for a bit. You're getting totally covered, Tim. 07/17/2011,20:17:14,scottwhite,let's see the tippy top 07/17/2011,20:17:25,catrionamunro,SQA several 07/17/2011,20:17:30,scottwhite,this is where we see the density inversion in the tow-yos 07/17/2011,20:18:06,scottwhite,30 m high chmine 07/17/2011,20:20:06,okeanosexplorer,Roger that. Still need to come north to the active graben? We will head NW away from this tower. 07/17/2011,20:20:49,scottwhite,probably head E from here 07/17/2011,20:21:04,scottwhite,next graben en echelon is SE of this one 07/17/2011,20:21:23,okeanosexplorer,Thank you. Agreed. 07/17/2011,20:22:32,okeanosexplorer,The ship has an ops meeting in 45 minutes. I have been able to provide them with a heads up draft plan each day. I will have to negotiate CTD if we are to go to 1a, and just wanted to provide the notion that if we go to 1a, we will have to dive in the 2a-2c region again the next dive or lose a dive in transit to the Rosebud/4a-4b. We can talk about this after the dive. 07/17/2011,20:23:48,scottwhite,Okay. Immediate need is to get another 200-250 m eastward before end of dive today. 07/17/2011,20:23:52,okeanosexplorer,We will go E-SE after we finish here. 07/17/2011,20:24:09,okeanosexplorer,hdg is 125 depth is 1938 07/17/2011,20:24:38,okeanosexplorer,88 18.272 00 44.237 at Tower Chimney. 07/17/2011,20:24:46,Bob Embley,Is that sonar target still ahead? 07/17/2011,20:27:01,scottwhite,coming down the 30m high dead chimney structure with LH for careful imaging 07/17/2011,20:28:02,okeanosexplorer,a few hits on the LH sonar. 07/17/2011,20:28:14,okeanosexplorer,hdg 109 and they are due east of us 07/17/2011,20:28:35,okeanosexplorer,sorry due north of us 07/17/2011,20:28:57,okeanosexplorer,SQA 07/17/2011,20:29:18,scottwhite,good. north is probably farther into the graben from us 07/17/2011,20:30:01,okeanosexplorer,a few sulfide edifices that extend from the base here. 07/17/2011,20:30:28,scottwhite,now getting into sulfide talus 07/17/2011,20:31:47,okeanosexplorer,So, we have 45 minutes from this tower. Graben may be north, but east will put us through inversion area more, correct? 07/17/2011,20:31:56,scottwhite,yes 07/17/2011,20:32:03,okeanosexplorer,depth 1960m 07/17/2011,20:32:19,okeanosexplorer,15m north there are more structures 07/17/2011,20:32:41,scottwhite,can drift up north and see if the water gets cloudy 07/17/2011,20:32:56,okeanosexplorer,moving now 07/17/2011,20:33:42,okeanosexplorer,heading 159 trend of ~3 chimney structures 07/17/2011,20:35:52,scottwhite,another tall chimney 07/17/2011,20:36:30,okeanosexplorer,hdg is 054 07/17/2011,20:36:50,okeanosexplorer,depth top at 1948m 07/17/2011,20:37:02,catrionamunro,CRA 07/17/2011,20:38:26,catrionamunro,BRY/HYD zoom 07/17/2011,20:40:40,okeanosexplorer,88 18.275 00 44.235 07/17/2011,20:40:56,okeanosexplorer,depth 1955 07/17/2011,20:41:08,okeanosexplorer,10 m tall edifice 07/17/2011,20:41:41,okeanosexplorer,I am suggesting a NE move and then run east. 07/17/2011,20:42:29,jamesholden,A/V down 07/17/2011,20:43:00,scottwhite,we are already pretty far north 07/17/2011,20:43:21,scottwhite,suggest moving E unless there is a target N or NE 07/17/2011,20:43:35,jamesholden,A/V up 07/17/2011,20:45:29,catrionamunro,SQA 07/17/2011,20:47:03,okeanosexplorer,heading out of here to the north. many sulfide edificies here. some show alvinellids scars 07/17/2011,20:47:16,okeanosexplorer,Not seeing any murky water. 07/17/2011,20:47:39,okeanosexplorer,heading 310 07/17/2011,20:47:50,okeanosexplorer,depth 1953 07/17/2011,20:48:55,catrionamunro,SQA 07/17/2011,20:49:47,scottwhite,out of dead chim field 07/17/2011,20:49:57,scottwhite,moving into north wall of graben 07/17/2011,20:49:59,okeanosexplorer,position 88 18.272 00 44.236 07/17/2011,20:50:02,scottwhite,TAL 07/17/2011,20:51:06,okeanosexplorer,013 heading 07/17/2011,20:51:33,okeanosexplorer,seeing southern face of northern wall 07/17/2011,20:52:07,okeanosexplorer,We have 20 minutes remaining. 07/17/2011,20:52:36,scottwhite,southeast, course 110-120 deg 07/17/2011,20:56:17,catrionamunro,SQA 07/17/2011,20:59:47,okeanosexplorer,This is a live update from the NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer. This is Tim Shank. The local time aboard the EX is 1500 hours. We are currently exploring targets in an area of younger lava flow on the Galapagos Rift at 1954m. We will leave bottom in 15 minutes. Ship’s location is 00 44.246N N, 88 18.272W. 07/17/2011,21:00:01,okeanosexplorer,hdg 288 07/17/2011,21:00:09,okeanosexplorer,depth 193 07/17/2011,21:00:21,okeanosexplorer,Depth 1953 07/17/2011,21:03:58,okeanosexplorer,SE move and transit likely not to happen... have 5 minutes left. 07/17/2011,21:04:25,okeanosexplorer,Will put the nav screen up in a few minutes so you can see the track. 07/17/2011,21:04:41,okeanosexplorer,SQA 07/17/2011,21:04:43,okeanosexplorer,PIL 07/17/2011,21:05:43,okeanosexplorer,CRA brachyuran 07/17/2011,21:06:11,okeanosexplorer,hdg looking at wall 14 07/17/2011,21:06:17,okeanosexplorer,depth 1963 07/17/2011,21:06:38,okeanosexplorer,88 18.269 00 44.251 07/17/2011,21:07:00,okeanosexplorer,expect ascent at ~22m per min 07/17/2011,21:07:52,okeanosexplorer,SPO 07/17/2011,21:08:49,okeanosexplorer,encrusting growth on PIL- old old PIL 07/17/2011,21:08:56,okeanosexplorer,SHI -nematos 07/17/2011,21:09:20,okeanosexplorer,No visible murkiness in Seirios videlo 07/17/2011,21:09:58,okeanosexplorer,*video 07/17/2011,21:10:15,okeanosexplorer,end of tether 07/17/2011,21:11:11,okeanosexplorer,HOL 07/17/2011,21:12:25,okeanosexplorer,from the towers did a 50 move to the north to get clear and then drifted SE for 25m. 07/17/2011,21:14:18,okeanosexplorer,ECCs, will send over the nav screen when leaving the bottom. 07/17/2011,21:14:20,okeanosexplorer,calling the end of the dive 07/17/2011,21:22:17,okeanosexplorer,ECCs, we will have a phone call in 10 minutes- 1-877-960-1977 1844757 07/17/2011,21:26:47,scottwhite,RGR