04/20/2012,00:02:59,okeanosexplorer, This is a live update from the NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer. This is Adam Skarke speaking. The local EX time is 1900 hours. Currently, the ROV is on deck and we are conducting multibeam mapping operations south of the Mississippi River Delta.  The ROV is scheduled to dive at 0800 tomorrow. The water depth at our position is approximately 200m. Our present heading is 20° at a position of 28° 54'N, 088° 58'W. 04/20/2012,01:00:16,okeanosexplorer, This is a live update from the NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer. This is Adam Skarke speaking. The local EX time is 2000 hours. Currently, the ROV is on deck and we are conducting multibeam mapping operations south of the Mississippi River Delta.  The ROV is scheduled to dive at 0800 tomorrow. The water depth at our position is approximately 150m. Our present heading is 20° at a position of 28° 57'N, 088° 58'W. 04/20/2012,03:24:54,okeanosexplorer,This is a live update from the NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer. This is Rick Nadeau speaking. The local EX time is 2225 hours. Currently, the ROV is on deck and we are conducting multibeam mapping operations south of the Mississippi River Delta.  The ROV is scheduled to dive at 0800 tomorrow. The water depth at our position is approximately 150m. Our present heading is 229° at a position of 28° 41'N, 089° 16'W. 04/20/2012,04:58:27,okeanosexplorer, This is a live update from the NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer. This is Rick Nadeau speaking. The local EX time is 2359 hours. Currently, the ROV is on deck and we are conducting multibeam mapping operations south of the Mississippi River Delta.  The ROV is scheduled to dive at 0800 tomorrow. The water depth at our position is approximately 400m. Our present heading is 232° at a position of 28° 31'N, 089° 31'W. 04/20/2012,06:07:30,okeanosexplorer, This is a live update from the NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer. This is Rick Nadeau speaking. The local EX time is 0105 hours. Currently, the ROV is on deck and we are conducting multibeam mapping operations southwest of the Mississippi River Delta.  The ROV is scheduled to dive at 0800 tomorrow. The water depth at our position is approximately 600m. Our present heading is 232° at a position of 28° 24'N, 089° 42'W. 04/20/2012,07:31:57,okeanosexplorer,This is a live update from the NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer. This is Rick Nadeau speaking. The local EX time is 0230 hours. Currently, the ROV is on deck and we are conducting multibeam mapping operations South of Terrebone Bay.  The ROV is scheduled to dive at 0800. The water depth at our position is approximately 250m. Our present heading is 233° at a position of 28° 14'N, 089° 57'W. 04/20/2012,08:33:52,okeanosexplorer, This is a live update from the NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer. This is Rick Nadeau speaking. The local EX time is 0335 hours. Currently, the ROV is on deck and we are conducting multibeam mapping operations South of Terrebone Bay, LA.  The ROV is scheduled to dive at 0800. The water depth at our position is approximately 300m. Our present heading is 233° at a position of 28° 07'N, 090° 08'W. 04/20/2012,10:25:42,okeanosexplorer, This is a live update from the NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer. This is Rick Nadeau speaking. The local EX time is 0525 hours. Currently, the ROV is on deck and we are conducting multibeam mapping operations South of Terrebone Bay.  The ROV is scheduled to dive at 0800. The water depth at our position is approximately 300m. Our present heading is 231° at a position of 28° 03'N, 090° 17'W. 04/20/2012,11:47:29,Catalina Martinez,Okeanos, the ISC is not receiving I2 feeds from the ship. Our other I2 feeds are coming in fine, so this appears to be specific to the ship's feeds. Please let me know if this is a ship issue. I'll check with Silver Spring in the meantime. Thanks. 04/20/2012,11:47:48,Catalina Martinez,Please let Webb and Kelley know. 04/20/2012,11:58:43,Catalina Martinez,Silver Spring is also not receiving I2 feeds from the ship. 04/20/2012,11:59:30,okeanosexplorer,Webb has been notified and is working on it. 04/20/2012,11:59:56,Catalina Martinez,Thanks 04/20/2012,12:00:31,okeanosexplorer, This is a live update from the NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer. This is Rick Nadeau speaking. The local EX time is 0700 hours. Currently, the ROV is on deck and we are conducting multibeam mapping operations 60 nm South of Terrebone Bay, LA while transiting to the dive site.  The ROV is scheduled to dive at 0800. The water depth at our position is approximately 300m. Our present heading is 90° at a position of 28° 01'N, 090° 21'W. 04/20/2012,12:52:37,Catalina Martinez,Okeanos, is there an internet issue on the ship? I keep seeing the IM from the ship disconnect and reconnect. 04/20/2012,12:53:45,Catalina Martinez,For all those dialing in this morning, I2 is down at the ISC (and in Silver Spring), so the I1 feeds are also down. We are all trying to determine where the problem lives so we can get the feeds working again. 04/20/2012,13:20:42,mckinleyfreeman,Kody Kramer and Bill Shedd here at Stennis! 04/20/2012,13:21:21,Erin Becker,Hi Kody and Bill. 04/20/2012,13:21:29,mckinleyfreeman,Hi Erin 04/20/2012,13:24:40,mckinleyfreeman,Calling into the conference number 04/20/2012,13:33:19,Jamie Austin,test 04/20/2012,13:36:33,Jamie Austin,This is the Okeanos Explorer. We are beginning Dive 08, an exploration dive to a water depth of ~350 m. We will be moving along a series of waypoints looking for naturally occurring seeps, hardgrounds and associated chemosynthetic communities. We expect to be on the seafloor by ~9AM CDT, for ~7.5 hrs. 04/20/2012,13:38:08,BOEM,Did the multibeam pick up any gas columns last night? 04/20/2012,13:38:14,Jamie Austin,Vehicles are passing 100 m. 04/20/2012,13:38:53,Erin Becker,Yes, and we see a lot of oil on the surface 04/20/2012,13:38:58,BOEM,neat 04/20/2012,13:39:59,tomweber,feeds are back up at UNH 04/20/2012,13:40:09,BOEM,got it at stennis too 04/20/2012,13:40:18,BOEM,excellent! 04/20/2012,13:40:45,celiacackowski,hello this is Derek Sutcliffe at the Inner Space Center 04/20/2012,13:41:04,celiacackowski,the signal level from the ship has stabilized and we have feeds back at the source 04/20/2012,13:41:04,Catalina Martinez,Feeds are back up 04/20/2012,13:44:43,Jamie Austin,Vehicles are passing 200 m. Stabilizing. 04/20/2012,13:46:43,michaelvecchione,I1 feed is OK at VIMS 04/20/2012,13:50:04,Jamie Austin,Vehcles passing 300 m. 04/20/2012,13:51:08,cordeslab,I2 feed looks good here 04/20/2012,13:52:37,Jamie Austin,Little Herc has visual of the seafloor. 04/20/2012,13:52:57,BOEM,The multibeam shot last night looks realyl good. It is better than the seismic bathymetry data we were using to plan our waypoints. We may need to adjust our waypoints 2 3 4 and 5 04/20/2012,13:53:18,BOEM,we wanted to set down right on top of the big hill/mound we are near currently 04/20/2012,13:54:25,Erin Becker,FSH skate 04/20/2012,13:54:33,BOEM,on one of the feeds would it be too much trouble to have a zoomed out view of the seafloor bathymetry for a few minutes? 04/20/2012,13:54:58,Jamie Austin,Roger that. We estimate the distance between waypoints 1 and 5 at. 1.9 km, so we will have to move along at a reasonable pace if we want to cover the distance in 7-7.5 hrs. 04/20/2012,13:56:00,Andrea Quattrini,FSH scorpaenid 04/20/2012,13:58:13,Andrea Quattrini,FSH phycid 04/20/2012,13:58:28,Erin Becker,did you say that you wanted WP1 to be on top of the mound 04/20/2012,14:00:33,BOEM,correct Erin 04/20/2012,14:00:48,BOEM,We don't have to go to the tippy top 04/20/2012,14:06:43,kelleyelliott,Hi folks - our video team is currently working to restore the teleconference line with the ship. 04/20/2012,14:07:42,kelleyelliott,Join the discussion by dialing: 1-866-617-5860 , passcode 1233796#. Please keep your phone on mute when you are not speaking. 04/20/2012,14:13:57,Erin Becker,ASR 04/20/2012,14:14:48,Jamie Austin,Moving NE towards WP1, at 0.1 kt. Then, we will proceed E towards designated WP2 at 0.2 kt. Some waypoint mods will occur as we look at the EK60 (acoustic plume) data in this area. 04/20/2012,14:15:30,Erin Becker,ASR 04/20/2012,14:17:06,Erin Becker,what are these orange fish? 04/20/2012,14:22:40,Jamie Austin,Nearing WP1. 04/20/2012,14:25:00,Jamie Austin,At WP1. Will turn E towards WP2. 04/20/2012,14:33:56,Erin Becker,Moving east to WP2 at 0.2 kt. Will take about 2 hours 04/20/2012,14:44:42,tomweber,sneezing fish? 04/20/2012,14:51:12,Jamie Austin,We have been given an acoustic location for a first seep, NE of our originally designated WP 2. We will be headed there at 0.3 kt., to give us time tyo investigate the acoustically indicated seep location when we get there. 04/20/2012,14:54:52,Jamie Austin,A second seep has been located in that vicinity. 04/20/2012,15:03:04,robertcarney,asr 2 04/20/2012,15:04:33,robertcarney,burrowing and stains close proximity 04/20/2012,15:04:50,robertcarney,fs 04/20/2012,15:09:43,robertcarney,hole no excavate 04/20/2012,15:09:52,robertcarney,wall highly textured 04/20/2012,15:10:42,robertcarney,asr 04/20/2012,15:11:15,Jamie Austin,Multiple seeps have now bee identified to the N and E. 04/20/2012,15:13:05,tomweber, bubbles 04/20/2012,15:14:13,Erin Becker,CHN - shark 2 04/20/2012,15:14:24,BOEM,intermittent bubbles 04/20/2012,15:15:05,BOEM,they were definitely there. probably not a constant stream 04/20/2012,15:15:39,robertcarney,?? depth and temp ?? 04/20/2012,15:15:54,robertcarney,look more like clam shells 04/20/2012,15:17:51,robertcarney,please close up shells and tubeworms this may be shalowest GoM seepcommunity 04/20/2012,15:18:12,robertcarney,mussels versus clams is important 04/20/2012,15:18:18,BOEM,they could have been bubbles trapped under the clam shells and when the shark moved around vigorously he dislogged the bubbles that were trapped by the shells 04/20/2012,15:18:24,Jamie Austin,Bubbles escaping. Intermittent? Checking the site. Some tubeworms. Bivalve shells. 04/20/2012,15:19:42,robertcarney,very important to assess what animals are here 04/20/2012,15:20:03,robertcarney,clams 04/20/2012,15:20:10,robertcarney,snail unfamiliar 04/20/2012,15:20:27,Erin Becker,lots of dead clam shells 04/20/2012,15:20:31,robertcarney,depth and temp please 04/20/2012,15:21:02,johnreed,Catsharks- Scyliorhinidae, I believe 04/20/2012,15:21:20,Catalina Martinez,Not a chain dogfish? 04/20/2012,15:21:47,robertcarney,field dead clams few tubeworms 04/20/2012,15:22:22,robertcarney,depth and temp please 04/20/2012,15:23:09,robertcarney,depth and temp please 04/20/2012,15:23:10,tomweber,Little Hercules: 04/20/2012,Lat/Lon: 28.04135, -90.33360 04/20/2012,Depth: 333.3m 04/20/2012,Altitude: 0.5m 04/20/2012,Heading: 331.7 04/20/2012,Temperature: 11.5362 04/20/2012,15:23:16,robertcarney,thansk yoy 04/20/2012,15:23:29,johnreed,Scyliorhynus retifer?, chained dogfish, within the catshark family Scyliorhinidae- i believe. 04/20/2012,15:23:50,robertcarney,to my knowledge this is now the shallowest and warmest seep with a chemo community 04/20/2012,15:24:05,Erin Becker,octocoral? 04/20/2012,15:24:15,cordeslab,yeah, a white color morph of Anthomastus 04/20/2012,15:24:36,Erin Becker,who is this 04/20/2012,15:24:47,cordeslab,close to the shallowest - we verified Harry Roberts reports of tubeworms at 290m at GC140 in 2010. 04/20/2012,15:24:50,robertcarney,fsh flounder 04/20/2012,15:25:06,cordeslab,sorry - Erik 04/20/2012,15:25:18,robertcarney,burrows numerous ~ 1cm 04/20/2012,15:25:23,cordeslab,logged in in the lab instead of ym computer... 04/20/2012,15:25:37,Jamie Austin,Virtual marker dropped here - D08-1. 04/20/2012,15:25:44,BOEM,Hi Erik. Bill and Kody here 04/20/2012,15:26:04,cordeslab,hey guys 04/20/2012,15:26:37,robertcarney,asr Sclerasterias type 04/20/2012,15:26:58,tomweber,bubbles 04/20/2012,15:28:22,Erin Becker,Times on video for the first bubbles stream (virtual target D08-1): start 15:12:48;07 stop 15:12:59;24 04/20/2012,15:28:41,Erin Becker,there was very clearly a fish disturbance that caused the bubbles to start 04/20/2012,15:28:53,robertcarney,asr 04/20/2012,15:30:28,robertcarney,black dots in white stain oil? 04/20/2012,15:31:21,robertcarney,dots in white ? 04/20/2012,15:32:02,robertcarney,fsh 2 04/20/2012,15:32:08,Erin Becker,FSH flounder 04/20/2012,15:33:25,robertcarney,cra rochina type 04/20/2012,15:34:39,robertcarney,miunds color contrast 04/20/2012,15:38:26,robertcarney,asr 04/20/2012,15:38:47,robertcarney,mud texture charge for short distance 04/20/2012,15:40:27,robertcarney,asr 2 04/20/2012,15:40:52,Jamie Austin,Fishing line. 04/20/2012,15:43:38,robertcarney,large mucus bag? 04/20/2012,15:43:43,Jamie Austin,Approaching our first designated seep site (called seep 7 on Hypack). 04/20/2012,15:45:21,Jamie Austin,ASR 04/20/2012,15:49:07,Jamie Austin,Humocky seafloor. Some crab burrows. No large biological concentrations. 04/20/2012,15:50:44,Jamie Austin,Searching the area in the vicinity of the designated seep location. 04/20/2012,15:50:51,Jamie Austin,asr 04/20/2012,15:52:22,Jamie Austin,cra 04/20/2012,15:56:00,robertcarney,tubes not necessarily tubeworms 04/20/2012,15:56:22,robertcarney,stain with large gray burrow adjacent 04/20/2012,15:57:37,robertcarney,asr 04/20/2012,15:57:52,cordeslab,FSH flatfish 04/20/2012,15:58:22,robertcarney,hol? 04/20/2012,16:00:47,Jamie Austin,asr - 2 04/20/2012,16:01:25,Jamie Austin,Getting ready to move to the next seep location. No obvious targets identified after a search of the initial location. 04/20/2012,16:04:48,robertcarney,plant detritus w/ withdrawn acn 04/20/2012,16:09:42,robertcarney,Note on mounds we are seeing quite a few that are conical and have a very round mouth directly on top. These tend to be gray. Could possibly be water expulsion features. 04/20/2012,16:10:09,robertcarney,asr 04/20/2012,16:10:44,robertcarney,disturbed area on mmud 04/20/2012,16:17:08,robertcarney,dead heart urchins? 04/20/2012,16:18:29,robertcarney,asr 04/20/2012,16:21:21,robertcarney,? anemone 04/20/2012,16:23:09,Erin Becker,I think that was an anemone, the tentacles were curved upward 04/20/2012,16:28:19,michaelvecchione,tilefish 04/20/2012,16:28:41,robertcarney,fsh w/ deep hole textured wall 04/20/2012,16:28:53,robertcarney,no obvious excavated material 04/20/2012,16:29:38,michaelvecchione,tilefish burrow 04/20/2012,16:29:49,robertcarney,fish also has color patterns...light 04/20/2012,16:31:58,robertcarney,the "swimmers" are transparent and look a bit like a pelagic polychate 04/20/2012,16:32:39,robertcarney,another "tilefish type" burrow 04/20/2012,16:40:14,michaelvecchione,another tilefish 04/20/2012,16:58:45,Jamie Austin,About to stop over our next prospective seep location. 04/20/2012,16:59:46,Jamie Austin,Crab(?) burrows. 04/20/2012,17:14:27,Jamie Austin,Headed for the next acoustically designated seep site. Then, we will proceed to the originally designated WP2. Moving at 0.2 kt. 04/20/2012,17:16:01,Jamie Austin,Dark staining. Target on the Seirios sonar. Slowing the ship to an easy stop. 04/20/2012,17:22:04,Jamie Austin,No candidates. Moving on to the next location. 04/20/2012,17:25:21,Jamie Austin,cra 04/20/2012,17:25:26,Jamie Austin,cra 04/20/2012,17:29:18,Erin Becker,small patch of dead clams 04/20/2012,17:34:11,tomweber,bubbles 04/20/2012,17:36:08,tomweber,fish taking bubble bath? 04/20/2012,17:41:12,tomweber,steady stream of bubbles, stream ceased almost immediately after we returned to the source location 04/20/2012,17:46:15,Jamie Austin,Starting search pattern. Could not isolate them. Searching around the seep location. 04/20/2012,17:51:32,Jamie Austin,Headed for WP2. Bearing 135 degrees. 0.3 kt. 04/20/2012,18:00:24,Jamie Austin,Carbonate hardgrounds. Stopping the ship. 04/20/2012,18:03:53,michaelvecchione,ploychaet swimming 04/20/2012,18:03:57,robertcarney,thing looked like a dead bamboo coral covered with epizoa 04/20/2012,18:04:06,Jamie Austin,No apparent seep activity. Moving on. 04/20/2012,18:04:20,robertcarney,live clam? 04/20/2012,18:04:39,robertcarney,some clams in life position 04/20/2012,18:04:51,robertcarney,burrow adjacent stain 04/20/2012,18:04:55,Erin Becker,soft white octocoral like we saw earlier, also what looks like a dead bamboo coral skeleton covered in zoanthids (or some other colonial anemone) 04/20/2012,18:05:16,Erin Becker,white anemones, large and small 04/20/2012,18:12:25,Andrea Quattrini,Depth? 04/20/2012,18:12:36,tomweber,Lat/Lon: 28.04135, -90.33360 04/20/2012,Depth: 333.3m 04/20/2012,Altitude: 0.5m 04/20/2012,Heading: 331.7 04/20/2012,Temperature: 11.5362 04/20/2012,18:13:05,Jamie Austin,More hardgrounds. Slowing to take a look. 04/20/2012,18:13:06,robertcarney,asr Sclerasterias type 04/20/2012,18:13:12,tomweber,sorry - that was a bad update. my realtime feed has stopped. 04/20/2012,18:13:27,Erin Becker,mine too 04/20/2012,18:13:33,robertcarney,massive dead clam mass 04/20/2012,18:13:45,Erin Becker,bamboo corals 04/20/2012,18:13:58,robertcarney,shells w/ less mud rt 04/20/2012,18:14:02,Erin Becker,you know what those other cnidarians are colonzing the dead skeletons> 04/20/2012,18:14:27,robertcarney,valves most disarticulated 04/20/2012,18:14:30,michaelvecchione,I have lost video on discovervideo.com but still getting it on oceanexplorer 04/20/2012,18:15:13,robertcarney,few tubes scattered no aggregates 04/20/2012,18:15:19,Andrea Quattrini,FSH Gephyroberyx, roughy family 04/20/2012,18:15:40,robertcarney,rock seems to be cemented clam shells? 04/20/2012,18:16:10,Jamie Austin,Moving on towards WP2. 04/20/2012,18:16:38,Erin Becker,some slopey topography here 04/20/2012,18:19:46,Erin Becker,ray 04/20/2012,18:20:22,Erin Becker,FSH ray 04/20/2012,18:21:17,Erin Becker,andrea, is Gephyroberyx the red fish we saw earlier? 04/20/2012,18:23:42,Jamie Austin,More small hardground targets. 04/20/2012,18:23:53,Andrea Quattrini,just at that last outcrop/clam shell area. I have not been watching all day... 04/20/2012,18:25:39,Erin Becker,but they were the red ones at the clam area? I think there were two different colored fish 04/20/2012,18:25:41,BOEM,I think Bill and I were a bit confused about the velocity. The ship and Serios are moving in a straight vector at 0.3kt, not the ROV going at 0.3kt 04/20/2012,18:25:57,Andrea Quattrini,yes the large red ones... 04/20/2012,18:26:07,Erin Becker,anyone know what those anemones are??? I don't know and they are everywhere... 04/20/2012,18:27:38,Andrea Quattrini,This is a different genus of roughy 04/20/2012,18:28:42,Andrea Quattrini,The common name of this "roughy" is actually Darwin's slimehead. 04/20/2012,18:29:05,Andrea Quattrini,:) 04/20/2012,18:30:02,Jamie Austin,Slowing down again. Staining extensive. Looking around. 04/20/2012,18:30:58,Erin Becker,bacterial mat - orange and white beggiatoa 04/20/2012,18:33:42,Erin Becker,carbonate with tubeworms 04/20/2012,18:35:34,tomweber,bubbles 04/20/2012,18:35:40,tomweber,steady stream 04/20/2012,18:38:24,tomweber,very nice zoom on bubble origin 04/20/2012,18:38:48,Jamie Austin,Bubble stream. Dive 08-2. 04/20/2012,18:39:04,tomweber,lasers straddling the source, if possible, would be great 04/20/2012,18:39:21,tomweber,i think it looks great 04/20/2012,18:45:06,Jamie Austin,Investigating another steam close by. 04/20/2012,18:45:12,Erin Becker,a few live tubeworms 04/20/2012,18:46:59,tomweber,a line over this site with the MB after the dive would be helpful 04/20/2012,18:48:45,tomweber,no hydrate formation at this depth/temp, so we'd get a good sense of the bubble dissolution rate if we can couple the sizes we see with Little Herc and the height we see them with the MBES and EK60 04/20/2012,18:49:37,Jamie Austin,Headed towards WP2 again, after a watch change. 04/20/2012,18:52:14,michaelvecchione,If they are seeing squids on the Seirioscamera, can we get a frame grab? 04/20/2012,18:53:33,Erin Becker,yes, mike. doing that now 04/20/2012,18:56:43,michaelvecchione,Thank you Erin 04/20/2012,18:57:30,Erin Becker,more orange beggiatoa 04/20/2012,18:59:22,robertcarney,flow feature 04/20/2012,18:59:22,tomweber,brine seep 04/20/2012,19:00:17,robertcarney,not nec brine may just be fluid mud need a salinity measurement 04/20/2012,19:00:42,BOEM,could someone provide us the Lat long for this location? can't read it from the nav screen 04/20/2012,19:00:45,BOEM,thanks 04/20/2012,19:00:47,Jamie Austin,Brine seep! This will be Dive 08-3. Stopping the ship to take a look. 04/20/2012,19:01:09,robertcarney,for bubble plumes look uphill in the flow feature 04/20/2012,19:01:12,tomweber,bubbles 04/20/2012,19:01:19,BOEM,the font on the nav screen is a bit distorted 04/20/2012,19:01:55,tomweber,intermittant 04/20/2012,19:02:06,robertcarney,oil drops 04/20/2012,19:02:11,robertcarney,black bubbles are oil 04/20/2012,19:02:11,Jamie Austin,Will stop and examine the bubbles. 04/20/2012,19:02:53,Erin Becker,28d 2.5352N; 9d 19.5209W 04/20/2012,19:03:15,tomweber,possible oil coating on one of the bubble streams 04/20/2012,19:03:17,BOEM,thanks 04/20/2012,19:03:42,robertcarney,refractive index trailing bubbles 04/20/2012,19:04:02,robertcarney,goof brine indication 04/20/2012,19:04:34,Jamie Austin,What looks to be droplets of liquid escaping from one or two locations. 04/20/2012,19:04:39,robertcarney,bubbles or drops are "pumping birne up which the falls back" 04/20/2012,19:05:00,tomweber,quite a soup. 04/20/2012,19:05:06,robertcarney,shimmer is refactive index differece...brine 04/20/2012,19:06:10,robertcarney,gas on rt 04/20/2012,19:06:40,Andrea Quattrini,FSH urophycis hake 04/20/2012,19:08:44,robertcarney,clam? 04/20/2012,19:12:11,Jamie Austin,Surveying the brine pool. 04/20/2012,19:12:58,robertcarney,which direction is up hill? 04/20/2012,19:13:41,robertcarney,transparent swimmer 04/20/2012,19:14:08,robertcarney,vent 04/20/2012,19:14:27,robertcarney,smaller vents 04/20/2012,19:14:56,robertcarney,oil very slow 04/20/2012,19:16:58,robertcarney,gas buccinid 04/20/2012,19:17:02,Jamie Austin,snail 04/20/2012,19:17:14,robertcarney,drops 04/20/2012,19:17:42,michaelvecchione,GAS = gastropod 04/20/2012,19:17:44,Erin Becker,big snail shell 04/20/2012,19:18:28,Jamie Austin,Continuing to WP2. 04/20/2012,19:18:31,robertcarney,? 04/20/2012,19:19:27,robertcarney,bivalve vertical 04/20/2012,19:20:22,robertcarney,mucus net on bottom 04/20/2012,19:20:23,robertcarney,? 04/20/2012,19:20:33,Jamie Austin,Advancing at 0.3 kt. 04/20/2012,19:20:48,robertcarney,flow feature 04/20/2012,19:22:01,robertcarney,flow feature and crust possibly barite crust 04/20/2012,19:22:13,robertcarney,barite chimnets? 04/20/2012,19:22:21,robertcarney,chimneys 04/20/2012,19:22:58,tomweber,bubble coming out of chimney 04/20/2012,19:23:07,tomweber,and to left 04/20/2012,19:23:20,robertcarney,very shallow and warm for hydrates 04/20/2012,19:23:24,Jamie Austin,Several fumarole-like organisms, leaking bubbles. 04/20/2012,19:24:21,Bill Kiene,bacteria mats? 04/20/2012,19:25:08,tomweber,oil droplets 04/20/2012,19:25:30,tomweber,or oily bubbles 04/20/2012,19:26:11,tomweber,340 m, 11.19 degC 04/20/2012,19:26:16,robertcarney,transparent swimmer 04/20/2012,19:26:41,robertcarney,refractive shimmer 04/20/2012,19:27:00,tomweber,oily bubble forming 04/20/2012,19:27:17,robertcarney,bacterial filaments? 04/20/2012,19:27:37,Erin Becker,Small mound structures, one releasing gas, one releasing oil 04/20/2012,19:28:01,Erin Becker,water generally shimmery around here probably because of brine 04/20/2012,19:28:20,robertcarney,tiny hydroid right on top? 04/20/2012,19:29:29,robertcarney,largest chimneyn in back right 04/20/2012,19:30:03,robertcarney,transparent swimmer 04/20/2012,19:30:55,robertcarney,lost of transparent swimmers 04/20/2012,19:31:16,tomweber,ROV manuevering possibly affecting bubble release rate 04/20/2012,19:31:56,robertcarney,similar chimnies when sampled are barite. In the lit 04/20/2012,19:33:23,Jamie Austin,Looking at small "volcanoes" - salt? Some have bubbles (and brine?) escaping from their tops. 04/20/2012,19:33:51,robertcarney,transparent swimmers looking more like polychaetes 04/20/2012,19:34:44,robertcarney,crusted vent/chimney 04/20/2012,19:35:47,Jamie Austin,Another "caldera" looking feature, ~10 cm across. A mini brine pool? 04/20/2012,19:37:46,robertcarney,polyp? 04/20/2012,19:37:47,santiagoherrera,serpulids? 04/20/2012,19:38:45,Erin Becker,yes, one polyp, and a feathery tubeworm - sabellids or serpulids 04/20/2012,19:38:57,Jamie Austin,Moving on to WP3. 04/20/2012,19:39:07,Jamie Austin,Correction - WP2 04/20/2012,19:40:58,Jamie Austin,That spot is Dive 08-4. 04/20/2012,19:42:03,robertcarney,gas large 04/20/2012,19:42:03,Jamie Austin,snail 04/20/2012,19:42:42,Jamie Austin,Collapse pit? 04/20/2012,19:47:28,BOEM,Jamie, I might have heard you wrong a couple minutes ago, but I think you quoted Orka Basin as 6m deep. It's actually about 200m on average 04/20/2012,19:51:24,Jamie Austin,I did get that wrong. Thsnks for the correction. I thought that's what Bill Shedd told me. 04/20/2012,19:53:22,Jamie Austin,At WP2. Doing a search with Little Herc. No obvious sonar targets. Seafloor relatively flat, with some burrows. 04/20/2012,19:56:31,Jamie Austin,Underway for WP3. 0.2 kt. 04/20/2012,19:57:12,robertcarney,gas? 04/20/2012,19:57:31,robertcarney,dead heart urchin? 04/20/2012,19:57:45,robertcarney,alive 04/20/2012,19:58:09,robertcarney,heart urchin 04/20/2012,19:58:20,michaelvecchione,test from aburrowing urchin? 04/20/2012,19:58:53,michaelvecchione,yes test from a burrowing urchin 04/20/2012,19:58:58,robertcarney,spatangoid pol colony 04/20/2012,19:59:06,BOEM,Every one of these today looks like they've been deceased 04/20/2012,19:59:48,robertcarney,urc pag on top of dead spatangid 04/20/2012,20:00:02,Erin Becker,hermit crab 04/20/2012,20:00:07,Erin Becker,on urchin test 04/20/2012,20:00:08,robertcarney,live heart urchins tend top be infauna 04/20/2012,20:01:36,robertcarney,cra 04/20/2012,20:03:28,santiagoherrera,TUB 04/20/2012,20:03:30,santiagoherrera,ACN 04/20/2012,20:03:39,santiagoherrera,CORO 04/20/2012,20:05:09,santiagoherrera,ASR 04/20/2012,20:05:12,robertcarney,asr sclerasterias like 04/20/2012,20:07:03,Erin Becker,yellow-green bacterial mat 04/20/2012,20:10:40,Erin Becker,FSH flouder 04/20/2012,20:12:36,Jamie Austin,Small hardground, with anemones. 04/20/2012,20:19:39,Erin Becker,FSH - skate 04/20/2012,20:21:42,BOEM,Jamie - Warren Wood says hello 04/20/2012,20:25:03,Jamie Austin,And hello to Warren! 04/20/2012,20:29:42,Erin Becker,FSH - ray 04/20/2012,20:32:51,robertcarney,cra rochina w/ epizoa 04/20/2012,20:32:57,Jamie Austin,crab encrusted by anemones 04/20/2012,20:36:15,tomweber,bubbles 04/20/2012,20:36:22,santiagoherrera,ACN 04/20/2012,20:36:25,santiagoherrera,CORO 04/20/2012,20:36:32,Jamie Austin,Bubbles. 04/20/2012,20:36:42,Erin Becker,carbonate with anemones and bamboo corals 04/20/2012,20:37:03,BOEM,LL coords please? 04/20/2012,20:38:36,Erin Becker,28d02.4984'N 090d19.3266'W 04/20/2012,20:38:42,BOEM,thnx 04/20/2012,20:39:00,Erin Becker,depth 338.2 m 04/20/2012,20:39:52,tomweber,bubbles 04/20/2012,20:40:06,tomweber,intermittant stream 04/20/2012,20:40:20,Jamie Austin,Virtual target - D08-5. 04/20/2012,20:41:56,Jamie Austin,Have lost the bubbles again. 04/20/2012,20:45:15,robertcarney,egg mass 04/20/2012,20:45:28,robertcarney,egg mass on a shell 04/20/2012,20:47:33,Jamie Austin,Complicated hardground outcrop, ncrusted. 04/20/2012,20:47:47,robertcarney,flow feature 04/20/2012,20:48:32,Jamie Austin,Looks like a btrine river - intermittent bubbles 04/20/2012,20:50:00,robertcarney,swimmers 04/20/2012,20:50:25,Erin Becker,looks like a brine river in a fissure between carbonates 04/20/2012,20:50:44,Jamie Austin,Brine river. 04/20/2012,20:51:33,Erin Becker,sponges, anemones, isolated tubeworms, bamboo corals along the banks of the river 04/20/2012,20:53:57,santiagoherrera,look like Anthomastus 04/20/2012,20:54:38,robertcarney,gas large 04/20/2012,20:55:40,Erin Becker,feathery octocoral = anthomastus 04/20/2012,20:59:44,Jamie Austin,Continuing our move towards WP3 − 60 m to go. 04/20/2012,21:04:38,robertcarney,living urc usually are burrowing 04/20/2012,21:07:58,Jamie Austin,Sponges and anemones on a coral harground. Feather-duster worms. And Anthomastus. 04/20/2012,21:07:59,robertcarney,spo on leg 2 were colled lollipop sponges 04/20/2012,21:10:05,Jamie Austin,At WP3. Doing a short survey. 04/20/2012,21:10:48,Jamie Austin,Another hardground with anemones. 04/20/2012,21:12:44,Jamie Austin,Anoterh hardground with anemones. 04/20/2012,21:14:19,Jamie Austin,One more hardground with anemones. 04/20/2012,21:16:43,Jamie Austin,That will conclude the dive. Getting the vehicles ready for ascent. 04/20/2012,21:20:14,robertcarney,test 04/20/2012,21:24:50,kelleyelliott,FYI, all. We'll have a science planning call at 1700 Central time. Call in: 1-866-617-5860, passcode: 1233796