04/12/2014,04:18:50,kelleyelliott,Hi all. NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer is currently transiting to site GB648 (approximate location: 27.337987316, -92.361746809, 960m) for Dive 01 of EX1402 Leg 3. The dive plan transects over an area where possible gas bubble streams were detected in Okeanos’ multibeam sonar during Leg 2 mapping operations. We plan to start the dive in an area where the backscatter bathymetry data is high, and expect to see hardgrounds with the potential for chemosynthetic communities and corals. The dive is expected to start at 960 m deep and transect upward to 750m.  
04/12/2014,
04/12/2014,Weather permitting, the ROV will be launched at 0830 (Central Daylight Time) and we expect to arrive on the seafloor by 0930.  We will host a pre-dive briefing via conference call at 0845 CDT during the ROV descent to discuss the dive and objectives. Join us for the science call and ROV dive by joining the Expedition teleconference line (1-866-617-5860, passcode 1233796) and tuning into the live feeds online at: http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/okeanos/media/exstream/exstream_04.html 
04/12/2014,
04/12/2014,Note that a high resolution version of feed 1 will be made available to the science team during the dive here: http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/okeanos/media/exstream/exstream-full-res.html
04/12/2014,12:36:57,stephaniefarrington65490,Good Morning Everyone.  Testing IM connectivity
04/12/2014,12:37:53,stephaniefarrington,Good morning
04/12/2014,12:38:17,briankennedy,good morning
04/12/2014,12:38:31,robertmcguinn,good morning all
04/12/2014,12:39:05,briankennedy,All three feeds look good from the ISC on I1 and I2
04/12/2014,13:06:32,stephaniefarrington,hello
04/12/2014,13:06:50,kelleyelliott,This is a live update from the NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer. We are currently on station at site GB648 and preparing to deploy the ROV for Dive 01 of the EX1402 Leg 3 Cruise. Our current location is 27d 20' 34.56" N, 92d 22' 01.86" W at a water depth of 960m. The current time onboard is 0805. We are on time and set to start deployment at 0830. Descent to the bottom should take about 45 minutes, and we will have our ship-to-shore science planning call at 0850 Central.
04/12/2014,13:08:58,kelleyelliott,Three multibeam passes were conducted overtop of the site last night and potential seeps were again detected in approximately the same location on each apss. We'll have the water column backscatter, multibeam and seafloor backscatter available for review during our ship-to-shore call. Join us by dialing 1-866-617-5860, passcode 1233796 and tuning into the live feeds online at: http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/okeanos/media/exstream/exstream_04.html 
04/12/2014,
04/12/2014,Note that a high resolution version of feed 1 will be made available to the science team during the dive here: http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/okeanos/media/exstream/exstream-full-res.html
04/12/2014,13:28:47,michaelvecchione,Good morning. Are you aware that the eventlog appears (on my computer at least) to be using Eastern Daylight rather than Central time?
04/12/2014,13:29:24,stephaniefarrington,  Good morning everyone! This is Stephanie Farrington the Biological Co-Science Lead aboard the Okeanos Explorer. We are trying to make the data coming from this event log easier to process and more useful. We are asking for a slight change to the SOP. If, before you identify or make a comment about the fauna or habitat, you could start your entry with a Carrot (>). All other comments can be kept as normal.  We are trying to find an easy way to filter identification/habitat data from other conversations.  I will be reminding everyone throughout the dives. The Data Management Team aboard the Okeanos Explorer thanks you for your cooperation.  
04/12/2014,13:44:37,stephaniefarrington,We have Launched the ROV
04/12/2014,13:46:10,Jamie Austin,Good morning folks.  Let me add my welcome to Stephanie's.  This is Jamie Austin, the other co-science lead for this Expedition.  Stephanie will lead the biological discussion, and I will take the lead on geological characterization.  We welcome all of your comments on both as we move through this, our first dive of Expedition 3 of ES1402.
04/12/2014,13:55:21,Jamie Austin,As this is our first dive, we will be moving slowly today.  Descent time to the seafloor should be about 30-35 minutes, once we start to descend.
04/12/2014,14:03:50,stephaniefarrington,Depth 115 m
04/12/2014,14:05:08,stephaniefarrington,This is Stephanie Farrington the Biological Co-Science Lead aboard the Okeanos Explorer. We are trying to make the data coming from this event log easier to process and more useful. We are asking for a slight change to the SOP. If, before you identify or make a comment about the fauna or habitat, you could start your entry with a Carrot (>). All other comments can be kept as normal.  We are trying to find an easy way to filter identification/habitat data from other conversations.  I will be reminding everyone throughout the dives. The Data Management Team aboard the Okeanos Explorer thanks you for your cooperation.
04/12/2014,14:06:01,stephaniefarrington,140 m
04/12/2014,14:06:16,stennisecc,Hi this is the Stennis ECC- either Bill Shedd or Kody Kramer will be using this account during the course of the dive. 
04/12/2014,14:06:50,stephaniefarrington,Thank you Stennis! 
04/12/2014,14:13:15,Jamie Austin,Position: 27 20.2443 N, 92 21.6471 W
04/12/2014,14:19:04,stennisecc,No bacterial mats on the dive codes list
04/12/2014,14:19:44,stennisecc,how about BMAT for generic bacterial mat?
04/12/2014,14:22:27,Jamie Austin,Water depth of the vehicles 385 m.
04/12/2014,14:24:29,Jamie Austin,Water depth 450 m.
04/12/2014,14:27:24,stephaniefarrington,>heading to WP S6 1st then S7.  Followed by S8, 9 and 10.  These are suspected seeps
04/12/2014,14:27:55,stephaniefarrington,>strike we will be doing S 6, 7 then 11, then 10 9 and 8
04/12/2014,14:28:00,michaelvecchione,>several JFH
04/12/2014,14:29:54,Jamie Austin,Depth 600 m
04/12/2014,14:31:29,stephaniefarrington,Dive one 650 m descending
04/12/2014,14:34:31,Jamie Austin,D2 at 750 m
04/12/2014,14:34:38,michaelvecchione,>JFH
04/12/2014,14:35:16,michaelvecchione,>several JFH
04/12/2014,14:36:09,stephaniefarrington,Mike do you know what theses longer plankton are?
04/12/2014,14:36:26,michaelvecchione,Several looked like siphonophores - physonects
04/12/2014,14:36:42,Jamie Austin,D2 at 800 m.
04/12/2014,14:36:56,michaelvecchione,couldn't find the code for SIPH
04/12/2014,14:37:52,stephaniefarrington,I dont think there is one.  
04/12/2014,14:37:58,Andrea Quattrini,Good morning Okeanos!
04/12/2014,14:38:00,michaelvecchione,we prob should have a code for salps too.
04/12/2014,14:38:08,Jamie Austin,D2 passing 850 m.
04/12/2014,14:38:34,michaelvecchione,last year salps were SAL and siphonophores SIPH
04/12/2014,14:38:43,stephaniefarrington,let me look
04/12/2014,14:39:01,stephaniefarrington,>SAL - Salp
04/12/2014,14:39:08,Bernie Ball,SHI
04/12/2014,14:39:11,Catalina Martinez,Hey Jamie - great to hear your voice.  Can't get enough of this, I guess.  I'm working in OSEC 115 with my MBA peeps today and Brian just came up and pulled up feed 1 for us.
04/12/2014,14:39:30,Catalina Martinez,Looking forward to watching the first dive!
04/12/2014,14:39:39,Jamie Austin,D2 passing 900 m.
04/12/2014,14:39:54,Catalina Martinez,I'm in!  Wanna work on your vineyard.
04/12/2014,14:40:15,stephaniefarrington,reminder - please before typing a species or habitat note to please use the > mark
04/12/2014,14:41:50,stephaniefarrington,>hovering over the hardgrounds
04/12/2014,14:42:04,Jamie Austin,Seafloor in view
04/12/2014,14:42:55,kelleyelliott,Hi Team - we're working on a data management issue here on board the ship and though the navigation and CTD data is streaming in from the vehicles and available on the real-time displays, etc. - the navigation and CTD data from D2 is NOT being recorded to our SCS - which means the data that we use to create the dive tracks is not being saved. The data from the Seirios camera platform IS being saved. We're working to fix this, but please be liberal in posting location info in the Eventlog and dropping Hypack targets of interest today.
04/12/2014,14:43:51,stephaniefarrington,>bottom is  soft bottom and bioterbation featureless
04/12/2014,14:44:02,briankinlan,Should we drop a Hypacl target for"on bottom"?
04/12/2014,14:44:07,briankinlan,*Hypack
04/12/2014,14:44:24,Andrea Quattrini,>SHI
04/12/2014,14:44:38,briankinlan,Current position?
04/12/2014,14:44:45,Jamie Austin,Done, Brian.
04/12/2014,14:45:16,Jamie Austin,27 20.2618 N, 92 21 6569 W
04/12/2014,14:45:41,Andrea Quattrini,depth? sorry if i missed it
04/12/2014,14:45:50,michaelvecchione,>FSH hatchetfish
04/12/2014,14:46:24,michaelvecchione,<SHI
04/12/2014,14:46:31,Jamie Austin,D2 depth 960 m.
04/12/2014,14:47:04,robertcarney,> BIV shell scattered in burrowed mud
04/12/2014,14:47:52,stephaniefarrington,>royal  red shrimp
04/12/2014,14:49:53,kelleyelliott,UPDATE: The Navigation data from D2 is now being captured and saved. We are still working to capture D2' CTD data.
04/12/2014,14:50:58,briankinlan,Great
04/12/2014,14:52:42,michaelvecchione,<FSH
04/12/2014,14:53:33,michaelvecchione,<FSH
04/12/2014,14:54:00,stennisecc,Does it matter which way the > goes?
04/12/2014,14:54:10,michaelvecchione,<another FSH
04/12/2014,14:54:11,Andrea Quattrini,>FSH myctophid
04/12/2014,14:55:32,Andrea Quattrini,>SHI
04/12/2014,14:55:43,michaelvecchione,<SHI
04/12/2014,15:02:58,Andrea Quattrini,>Phronima
04/12/2014,15:03:44,stephaniefarrington,stennis.. no either the < or the > we can filter for both.  
04/12/2014,15:04:14,Bernie Ball,>SQD
04/12/2014,15:07:39,stephaniefarrington,> there is a feature 25 m to the SE of our location, We are going to go there 1st
04/12/2014,15:08:06,Jamie Austin,Getting ready to move.
04/12/2014,15:10:10,stephaniefarrington,> moving towards the feature
04/12/2014,15:10:30,Jamie Austin,Discolored seafloor.
04/12/2014,15:10:46,Andrea Quattrini,shell frags
04/12/2014,15:10:56,stephaniefarrington,> current WSW
04/12/2014,15:11:03,Jamie Austin,02.-0.4 kts of current from the SW.
04/12/2014,15:11:10,robertcarney,>Mound ringed by BIV shell hash
04/12/2014,15:11:44,Bernie Ball,>BIV shells scattered around mound
04/12/2014,15:11:57,Bernie Ball,>CAR
04/12/2014,15:12:00,Jamie Austin,carbonate hardground mound
04/12/2014,15:12:23,Andrea Quattrini,>FSH myctophid?
04/12/2014,15:12:47,Andrea Quattrini,>FSH 
04/12/2014,15:14:12,Bernie Ball,>MAT grey/black
04/12/2014,15:14:24,Bernie Ball,>MAT yellow
04/12/2014,15:14:40,robertcarney,>MUS live
04/12/2014,15:15:21,Bernie Ball,that may actually be yellow encrusting sponge
04/12/2014,15:15:21,Jamie Austin,Hardgrounds look indeed like carbonate.  Light yellow in color.  Mound looks circular.  Encrusted with live mussels and with shell debris around the perimeter.
04/12/2014,15:15:29,robertcarney,>GAS Cantrania?
04/12/2014,15:16:25,Bernie Ball,can we get a few zooms on the yellow?
04/12/2014,15:16:29,robertcarney,> native sulphur would be fun...don't touch
04/12/2014,15:16:30,briankinlan,Hypack Target "Carbonate Hardground approx 25m SE of WP1"?
04/12/2014,15:16:47,carolruppel,Good morning.  Just joining.  Having little trouble audio, but the video loks great.
04/12/2014,15:16:48,Andrea Quattrini,>SHI
04/12/2014,15:17:00,Bernie Ball,>live Bathymodiolus
04/12/2014,15:17:13,Bernie Ball,>MUS
04/12/2014,15:17:25,Andrea Quattrini,>GAS
04/12/2014,15:17:50,robertcarney,>TUB curled within carbonate
04/12/2014,15:17:59,Andrea Quattrini,>FSH eelpoout?
04/12/2014,15:20:08,robertcarney,>CRB
04/12/2014,15:20:11,briankinlan,Lat/Long?
04/12/2014,15:20:40,Bernie Ball,>CRARED
04/12/2014,15:20:54,Jamie Austin,27 20.2364 N, 92 21.6486 W
04/12/2014,15:21:13,robertcarney,>TUB extnding from rock
04/12/2014,15:21:34,Jamie Austin,Mike Vecchione suggests that this could be an inactive mud volcano.  These have been seen acoustically in this area.
04/12/2014,15:22:05,stennisecc,Bill Shedd too
04/12/2014,15:22:11,Bernie Ball,zoom on mussels?
04/12/2014,15:22:34,michaelvecchione,somebodt else suggested it.
04/12/2014,15:22:42,michaelvecchione,>FSH
04/12/2014,15:24:38,Jamie Austin,Yellow staining in places - elemental sulfur?  That would be consistent with a mud volcano.
04/12/2014,15:25:16,stephaniefarrington,>Yellow staining in places - elemental sulfur?  That would be consistent with a mud volcano.
04/12/2014,15:25:18,robertcarney,Need tight zoom on yellow
04/12/2014,15:26:06,michaelvecchione,>SIPH?
04/12/2014,15:26:10,Jamie Austin,Evidence when passing over the feature of old cavities which might be vents.
04/12/2014,15:26:28,robertmcguinn,>FSH
04/12/2014,15:27:04,stephaniefarrington,>taking a temperature probe
04/12/2014,15:28:30,stephaniefarrington,> the round feature from the Serius suggests a mud volcano. the living biota suggests that there may still be some activity
04/12/2014,15:29:12,robertcarney,> TUB 
04/12/2014,15:29:30,carolruppel,Are temperature data being recorded digitally in a computer log or is this just a single measurement that will reported only manually in the event log?
04/12/2014,15:29:34,michaelvecchione,zoom on FSH?
04/12/2014,15:30:49,stephaniefarrington,>tube worm
04/12/2014,15:30:52,kelleyelliott,It is being captured ina  log, however we experienced issues capturing the ROV nav - so this should be manually recorded in the Eventlog with lat/long as well
04/12/2014,15:31:02,carolruppel,roger
04/12/2014,15:31:29,Andrea Quattrini,macrourid
04/12/2014,15:31:31,stephaniefarrington,>BIV zoom
04/12/2014,15:31:36,Bernie Ball,>TUB there are a few upright tubes on the rocks
04/12/2014,15:31:56,michaelvecchione,>SHI
04/12/2014,15:31:59,robertcarney,>MUS perisotricum eroded..intermittant grow rings obvious
04/12/2014,15:33:17,robertcarney,> GAS 
04/12/2014,15:33:43,Bernie Ball,>HYDRATE?
04/12/2014,15:33:48,stephaniefarrington,>mud volcanos are flows of sediment mud and sand that are coming up with the brine and gas 
04/12/2014,15:33:55,Bernie Ball,	floating
04/12/2014,15:34:14,stephaniefarrington,>as the mud volanos get older they get crusty and old looking like
04/12/2014,15:35:11,robertcarney,>SQA under rock ledge
04/12/2014,15:37:24,stephaniefarrington,>temperature probe  27°20.2358'N,92°21.6480'W this probe is on the feature
04/12/2014,15:38:47,robertcarney,Audio intermittant at LSU
04/12/2014,15:39:57,carolruppel,audio out in Boston
04/12/2014,15:40:45,robertmcguinn,audio out
04/12/2014,15:40:59,robertcarney,>audio back I-2 at LSU
04/12/2014,15:41:01,briankinlan,Temperature 5.19C inside cavity, 5.14C ambient, differential of +0.05C
04/12/2014,15:41:27,briankennedy,The audio will be better on the conference call line. 
04/12/2014,15:41:48,robertmcguinn,thx brian
04/12/2014,15:41:59,Jamie Austin,temp probe 5.19 C in the cavity, as opposed to 5.14 degrees in the ambient water column.
04/12/2014,15:42:36,robertcarney,>MUS perisotricum eroded intermittant growth bands
04/12/2014,15:42:55,Bernie Ball,>MAT  during the NE canyon cruise last year we found this "marshmallow fluff" associated with several of the mussel beds.
04/12/2014,15:43:05,robertcarney,>Yellow looks like SPO
04/12/2014,15:43:59,Bernie Ball,i agree with yellow
04/12/2014,15:44:11,robertcarney,>BIO white fluffy overgrowth
04/12/2014,15:46:10,robertcarney,>seep cheese
04/12/2014,15:47:12,carolruppel,seep cheese is..?
04/12/2014,15:47:34,stennisecc,cheese could be mussel eggs?
04/12/2014,15:50:12,briankinlan,Not mussel eggs
04/12/2014,15:51:13,robertcarney,Mussels broadcast eggs into water.  There isn't a gelatinous mass
04/12/2014,15:51:48,robertcarney,>TUB isolated vert from bottom
04/12/2014,15:52:21,robertcarney,>AST
04/12/2014,15:52:27,robertcarney,>SQA
04/12/2014,15:53:08,robertcarney,>CORA
04/12/2014,15:53:10,briankinlan,CORA
04/12/2014,15:53:24,briankinlan,model validated! :-)
04/12/2014,15:53:56,robertcarney,> MOTtled bottom, mud few large mounds
04/12/2014,15:54:07,briankinlan,lat/long?
04/12/2014,15:54:43,michaelvecchione,>EEL
04/12/2014,15:54:43,robertcarney,>FELO
04/12/2014,15:54:52,michaelvecchione,cutthroat eel
04/12/2014,15:55:34,robertcarney,depression or ridge lft
04/12/2014,15:55:47,Jamie Austin,transiting to our first suspected seep location
04/12/2014,15:56:15,robertcarney,> BIV shell has in depression
04/12/2014,15:56:18,briankinlan,heading 042 degrees
04/12/2014,15:56:38,robertcarney,>MAT white and orange 
04/12/2014,15:58:00,kelleyelliott,>stopping to zoom in on the orange and white MAT 
04/12/2014,15:58:24,briankinlan,we are transecting a "negative anomaly" feature shown in Bill Shedd's seismic bottom anomaly database.  Near the center of the feature now.
04/12/2014,16:00:33,robertcarney,>CARB shattered pavement looking
04/12/2014,16:01:55,robertcarney,>ROC boulder-size
04/12/2014,16:02:29,robertcarney,>BIV shell hash extensive in mounds
04/12/2014,16:02:39,Jamie Austin,scattered hardgrounds - mounts
04/12/2014,16:02:57,Bernie Ball,>BUR
04/12/2014,16:03:04,kelleyelliott,27 20.2549 92 21.6278
04/12/2014,16:03:11,Jamie Austin,27 25.2553 N, 92 21.6276 W
04/12/2014,16:03:12,briankinlan,thanks kelley
04/12/2014,16:03:45,robertcarney,>CRI? on ROC
04/12/2014,16:04:56,robertcarney,>AST brisingidae not CRI
04/12/2014,16:05:56,robertcarney,>ISO Bathnomus behind rock
04/12/2014,16:06:28,robertcarney,>FSH gadid
04/12/2014,16:07:05,robertcarney,>Hol Paelopatides?
04/12/2014,16:07:55,robertcarney,> Mud conical color contrast mounds
04/12/2014,16:08:15,briankinlan,position given by kelleyelliott at 11:03:32am CDT was correct. Typo in position given by JA--ignore
04/12/2014,16:09:23,robertcarney,> larger bio mounds and pits 
04/12/2014,16:09:56,okeanosexplorer,I have been switched to the low speed internet with my event log.  I should not be problem for me anymore
04/12/2014,16:10:39,okeanosexplorer,The is Stephanie speaking on the okeanos line
04/12/2014,16:11:02,robertcarney,>ROC mounded boulder w/ BIV shell hash at base
04/12/2014,16:11:24,robertcarney,> CAIRN
04/12/2014,16:12:01,Andrea Quattrini,What is the age range for the carbonates on features like this? Any idea?
04/12/2014,16:12:27,okeanosexplorer,jamie left. when he comes back I will ask
04/12/2014,16:13:15,carolruppel,As far as I know, there hasn't been high quality (laser ablation) dating on GOM authigenic carbonates.  IT is thought that they take hundreds to thousands of years to form.  Then you need to erode the seafloor above them for them to be exposed at the surface.  
04/12/2014,16:14:52,carolruppel,The most advanced geochron that I know about on authigenic carbonates has been done in the Barents Sea by British Geol. Survey and by Christian Berndt (Science paper in January 2014) on the Svalbard margin.   The results for Svalbard seeps gave dates of hundreds up to 8000 yrs.
04/12/2014,16:15:33,Andrea Quattrini,Coral?
04/12/2014,16:15:48,briankinlan,zoom coral?
04/12/2014,16:16:24,robertmcguinn,>COR
04/12/2014,16:18:02,okeanosexplorer,>>squid in Serius
04/12/2014,16:18:36,robertcarney,>OPH
04/12/2014,16:18:57,Andrea Quattrini,>CORB
04/12/2014,16:19:15,robertcarney,>GAS
04/12/2014,16:19:20,Bernie Ball,>another  AST brisingidae
04/12/2014,16:19:23,Andrea Quattrini,antipatharian 
04/12/2014,16:19:38,Andrea Quattrini,?close up any more?
04/12/2014,16:20:00,robertcarney,>ROC extensively bored tubes extending from cavities
04/12/2014,16:20:24,robertmcguinn,lasers?
04/12/2014,16:20:30,Andrea Quattrini,or hydroid?
04/12/2014,16:21:13,robertcarney,>SQA
04/12/2014,16:21:17,okeanosexplorer,there are no lasers
04/12/2014,16:21:22,robertmcguinn,ok
04/12/2014,16:21:28,robertcarney,>URC
04/12/2014,16:21:42,Bernie Ball,>SHI
04/12/2014,16:22:15,robertcarney,>MUS live down amoung ROC
04/12/2014,16:22:43,michaelvecchione,>FSH
04/12/2014,16:23:49,robertcarney,>TUB single from between to ROC
04/12/2014,16:23:56,okeanosexplorer,>cement Calcium carbonate will have few carbonates, expect the intervening sediments are less permiable 
04/12/2014,16:24:00,kelleyelliott,Our onboard video editors select still frames from the video footage - usually capturing a far, medium and close-up view of anything we stop to look at. We can discuss this process more during our science call today. We are recording all of the video captured during the dive here on board the ship, and frame grabs for specific purposes can be done using the video footage as a post-dive process.
04/12/2014,16:24:06,robertcarney,>CRA Geryon
04/12/2014,16:25:16,robertcarney,>TUB small cluster at ROC mud juncture
04/12/2014,16:25:57,briankinlan,Thanks Kelley.  That clears up my question--since the video is being recorded in full, we can run the framegrabbing process later.  Sorry for the confusion. 
04/12/2014,16:26:23,michaelvecchione,Geryon = Chaceon?
04/12/2014,16:26:25,Jamie Austin,more hargrounds.  quite shingled.
04/12/2014,16:26:39,Andrea Quattrini,>MUS live
04/12/2014,16:26:53,robertcarney,>MUS mixed live and dead
04/12/2014,16:27:10,robertcarney,> Chaceon CRA
04/12/2014,16:27:30,robertcarney,>TUB from large ROC
04/12/2014,16:28:17,okeanosexplorer,>live muscles = gas escape likely
04/12/2014,16:29:30,robertcarney,>TUB
04/12/2014,16:29:33,robertmcguinn,>COR
04/12/2014,16:30:18,Andrea Quattrini,same species as before?
04/12/2014,16:30:24,robertcarney,>URC
04/12/2014,16:30:38,briankinlan,COR
04/12/2014,16:30:52,robertcarney,>ROC contains fossil BIV shells
04/12/2014,16:30:57,Andrea Quattrini,Chrysogorgia
04/12/2014,16:31:04,robertcarney,>SQA
04/12/2014,16:31:17,robertcarney,>GAS
04/12/2014,16:31:43,robertcarney,>TUB lower right
04/12/2014,16:32:19,Andrea Quattrini,>CORO
04/12/2014,16:33:04,robertcarney,>SHI
04/12/2014,16:34:23,robertcarney,>TUB one plume extended
04/12/2014,16:34:33,michaelvecchione,>FSH
04/12/2014,16:34:47,Bernie Ball,yes, alive
04/12/2014,16:34:51,Bernie Ball,one
04/12/2014,16:35:10,robertcarney,>SQA
04/12/2014,16:36:39,robertcarney,>CRA Chaceon
04/12/2014,16:37:14,Jamie Austin,bacterial mats? - grey discoloration of the sediment to the right of the live mussel bed
04/12/2014,16:38:04,robertcarney,>URC among MUS Echinus-like
04/12/2014,16:38:07,briankinlan,lat/long?
04/12/2014,16:38:23,Bernie Ball,>MUS Bathymodiolus
04/12/2014,16:38:29,Bernie Ball,>Bubbles
04/12/2014,16:38:29,Jamie Austin,bubbles escaping
04/12/2014,16:38:50,briankinlan,Nice bubble streams!
04/12/2014,16:39:28,robertcarney,>MUS most have eroded periostricum few smaller patches retain periostricum
04/12/2014,16:39:40,Andrea Quattrini,sveral URC
04/12/2014,16:39:42,robertcarney,>GAS 
04/12/2014,16:40:01,Bernie Ball, Very nice zoom
04/12/2014,16:40:02,Andrea Quattrini,>SQA
04/12/2014,16:40:05,robertcarney,Old
04/12/2014,16:40:17,robertcarney,Youn still have cover
04/12/2014,16:40:42,robertcarney,>MUS intermittant growth bands
04/12/2014,16:41:14,robertcarney,urchins are not cheo
04/12/2014,16:41:14,Bernie Ball,>SCA
04/12/2014,16:41:58,Bernie Ball,>is that hydrate back in there?
04/12/2014,16:42:05,robertcarney,HYDRATE
04/12/2014,16:42:19,robertcarney,>SQA
04/12/2014,16:42:51,erikcordes,looks like hydrate. cool
04/12/2014,16:43:01,Jamie Austin,hydrate in the hollow
04/12/2014,16:43:10,erikcordes,looks like B. childressi?
04/12/2014,16:43:35,Bill Kiene,Is the movement of soft orgs due to current or due to fluid flow from the sea floor?
04/12/2014,16:43:58,michaelvecchione,different snails
04/12/2014,16:44:00,carolruppel,pretty strong currents here (relatively) from what i understand
04/12/2014,16:44:03,Andrea Quattrini,different GAS
04/12/2014,16:44:13,robertcarney,>MUS banding on shell shows up nicely
04/12/2014,16:44:27,Jamie Austin,zooming in on bubble streams
04/12/2014,16:44:34,robertcarney,>GAS  Eosipho typws
04/12/2014,16:45:35,robertcarney,>GAS mating cluster left
04/12/2014,16:45:50,Jamie Austin,27 20.2820 N, 92 21.5925 W
04/12/2014,16:45:53,robertcarney,>SQA w/ fuzz on arms
04/12/2014,16:45:53,briankinlan,SQU
04/12/2014,16:45:53,Andrea Quattrini,>SQA
04/12/2014,16:46:09,briankinlan,*SQA
04/12/2014,16:46:10,robertcarney,>Yello hydrate
04/12/2014,16:47:39,robertcarney,> bluish bubble cluster on Yellow Hydrate
04/12/2014,16:48:47,michaelvecchione,>FSH
04/12/2014,16:50:17,robertcarney,>SPO ball
04/12/2014,16:50:34,robertcarney,>CRA mating? Chaceon
04/12/2014,16:51:07,Jamie Austin,age progression on this feature - older and more excavated in one part, and more living biology/bacterial matting/excaping bubbles in another part
04/12/2014,16:51:13,robertcarney,>CRA mating pair and old  shell
04/12/2014,16:53:38,Bernie Ball,>MAT
04/12/2014,16:53:38,robertcarney,> SED gray stain
04/12/2014,16:54:21,robertcarney,>GAS numerous on mud
04/12/2014,16:54:30,okeanosexplorer,An age progression in this feature - older, browner, more eroded in one part, less eroded, more living bology, gas escape in another part?
04/12/2014,16:55:24,Jamie Austin,small seep
04/12/2014,16:56:40,robertcarney,> CRA mating again along with shed 
04/12/2014,16:57:07,robertcarney,only 2 crabs and an old shell
04/12/2014,16:57:38,michaelvecchione,>SPO
04/12/2014,16:57:42,robertcarney,her's
04/12/2014,16:57:52,robertcarney,>SQA
04/12/2014,16:58:16,Bill Kiene,the rapid movement of soft organics around the live mussel beds but slow movement of sediment disturbed by ROV and verticle bubble trail suggests that fluid is flowing out of the seafloor at mussel beds.
04/12/2014,16:58:25,robertcarney,male holds female until she sheds  she did
04/12/2014,16:59:13,robertcarney,>TUB few from same big rock
04/12/2014,16:59:13,Bernie Ball,>TUB
04/12/2014,17:01:02,robertcarney,mussles pump water...thus the apparent flux
04/12/2014,17:04:37,Bill Kiene,Yes Robert, but flow seemed very rapid and wouldn't the bacterial/mussel symbiosis need some kind of energy source…there isn't that much gas flow within the beds?
04/12/2014,17:05:23,okeanosexplorer,I encourage you guys to tap into the conferecne line and share this...
04/12/2014,17:05:54,carolruppel,only person i hear on conference line is a woman talking (stephanie?)...nothing else
04/12/2014,17:06:19,Bill Kiene,Online audio is often intermittent for me.  Conference line may be better.
04/12/2014,17:06:19,robertcarney,I hear Steffanie and pilots
04/12/2014,17:06:26,carolruppel,i'm on conference line
04/12/2014,17:07:47,okeanosexplorer,sorruy bout that
04/12/2014,17:08:13,okeanosexplorer,were gonna abe sitting here to image and grab a temp of the bubble streme>
04/12/2014,17:12:10,stennisecc,Can you turn the lasers on please?
04/12/2014,17:12:21,okeanosexplorer,there are no lasers... sorry
04/12/2014,17:12:30,stennisecc,ok thanks
04/12/2014,17:12:54,stennisecc,is anyone talking on the call right now- we can't hear anything...
04/12/2014,17:13:06,okeanosexplorer,I am not talking 
04/12/2014,17:13:24,okeanosexplorer,did you hear that?
04/12/2014,17:13:25,stennisecc,Ok we can hear Stephanie now- but you are very quiet
04/12/2014,17:13:32,okeanosexplorer,oh NO!
04/12/2014,17:13:36,okeanosexplorer,im mmove my mike
04/12/2014,17:13:52,okeanosexplorer,lol mic
04/12/2014,17:14:22,Bernie Ball,If you hear the pilots on the stream and want to cut them out, you can adjust your speaker balance.  The right channel, I think, is the pilot's channel
04/12/2014,17:16:26,robertcarney,>GAS mating cluster of buccinids on rock upper left
04/12/2014,17:18:17,robertcarney,>Yellow hydrate exposure middle of view
04/12/2014,17:21:07,okeanosexplorer,>hypac was taken earlier
04/12/2014,17:22:25,okeanosexplorer,> termp prob 1 5.15 to 5.22
04/12/2014,17:22:31,okeanosexplorer,degrees
04/12/2014,17:23:09,okeanosexplorer,> moving to S7
04/12/2014,17:24:37,stennisecc,Bill Shedd and Kody Kramer heading to lunch
04/12/2014,17:24:54,robertcarney,>AST brisingidae
04/12/2014,17:25:00,okeanosexplorer,Thanks Bill
04/12/2014,17:28:01,Jamie Austin,Variegated mottled seafloor.  Mild bioturbation.
04/12/2014,17:29:55,stennisecc,Nevermind about Bill/Kody going to lunch :) We've got a volunteer food-grabber
04/12/2014,17:30:20,okeanosexplorer,LOL ok thanks! im glad you didnt miss anything!
04/12/2014,17:30:50,robertmcguinn,any way we can get the lat/long written into the eventlog at some regularly spaced interval, as a backup? thanks! 
04/12/2014,17:32:07,briankinlan,I second Robert's request.  It makes me nervous that we lost D2 NAV recording earlier.  I think we should pick a time interval and a designated person to type the lat/long into the eventlog as SOP
04/12/2014,17:32:35,robertcarney,> SHI crangonid
04/12/2014,17:33:40,robertmcguinn,thanks!!!!
04/12/2014,17:33:59,okeanosexplorer,LAt and long > 27 20.2836'N, 92 21.5659'W
04/12/2014,17:34:05,briankinlan,thanks!
04/12/2014,17:34:41,okeanosexplorer,We have been grabing HiPac points on the features as well/ 
04/12/2014,17:36:56,robertcarney,>ROC pile much less shell hash
04/12/2014,17:37:23,okeanosexplorer,> comig across hardbottom carbonate rock
04/12/2014,17:37:33,robertcarney,>URC
04/12/2014,17:37:47,okeanosexplorer,>hydrate under the ledge
04/12/2014,17:38:39,robertcarney,>TUB few scattered
04/12/2014,17:39:20,robertcarney,>Yellow SPO?
04/12/2014,17:40:53,okeanosexplorer,> carbonates formed within the sediments and the sedimewnts were disolved from the rock.  
04/12/2014,17:41:01,Bernie Ball,>SHI
04/12/2014,17:41:11,robertcarney,>AST
04/12/2014,17:42:04,Bernie Ball,>MUS - live
04/12/2014,17:42:11,robertcarney,>MUS few live under surface of ROC
04/12/2014,17:42:46,Bernie Ball,Bob, does that clam look alive?
04/12/2014,17:42:48,robertcarney,>OPH arms from holes in ROC
04/12/2014,17:42:50,Bill Kiene,Again, does the movement of bacteria mat suggest fluid flow from the seafloor?
04/12/2014,17:43:17,Bernie Ball,sorry, not a clam
04/12/2014,17:43:43,robertcarney,>SHI
04/12/2014,17:43:43,okeanosexplorer,>AST Gonisteroid
04/12/2014,17:44:29,Andrea Quattrini,>ASR another
04/12/2014,17:45:34,robertcarney,>? Braciopods
04/12/2014,17:46:16,robertcarney,>URC
04/12/2014,17:46:56,robertcarney,>ASR brisingidae at least 2
04/12/2014,17:47:18,robertcarney,>Brachipods under ROC
04/12/2014,17:47:37,okeanosexplorer,> close up of AST
04/12/2014,17:48:30,robertcarney,>OPH many legs from ROC
04/12/2014,17:49:10,Bernie Ball,>SQA
04/12/2014,17:49:51,robertmcguinn,>COR
04/12/2014,17:50:20,Andrea Quattrini,maybe cerianthids?
04/12/2014,17:50:21,Bernie Ball,>ACN - numerous small
04/12/2014,17:50:24,briankinlan,can't tell if it's a cup coral or an anemone
04/12/2014,17:50:32,Andrea Quattrini,i think they are anemones
04/12/2014,17:51:23,robertcarney,>TUB
04/12/2014,17:51:31,briankinlan,yeah on close-up I agree  >ACN
04/12/2014,17:52:20,robertcarney,bubble
04/12/2014,17:52:58,robertcarney,D2
04/12/2014,17:53:00,okeanosexplorer,>please elborat? where?
04/12/2014,17:53:05,robertcarney,back aways now
04/12/2014,17:53:47,Jamie Austin,27 20.2866 N, 92 215484 W
04/12/2014,17:54:12,Jamie Austin,21.5484, correction to longitude
04/12/2014,17:57:41,okeanosexplorer,> Bill: these dives are significant becaues it gives us more confidance inthe mapping for ground truthings.  We put a 2000 ft buffer to restrict the oil indusrty from drilling here. the rilling can adversly affect these communitues.  
04/12/2014,17:58:00,okeanosexplorer,> chaging direction to S11
04/12/2014,17:59:05,robertcarney,> Hole
04/12/2014,17:59:12,robertcarney,OIL
04/12/2014,17:59:24,okeanosexplorer,> OIL
04/12/2014,17:59:33,robertcarney,>GAS numerous
04/12/2014,17:59:36,Jamie Austin,small hardgrounds, en route to S11.  Oil escaping as well as gas.
04/12/2014,18:00:49,robertcarney,> ? Barite Crust?
04/12/2014,18:01:15,robertcarney,>MUS single live
04/12/2014,18:01:38,okeanosexplorer,>gas
04/12/2014,18:01:42,robertcarney,>SQA
04/12/2014,18:01:48,robertcarney,>URC
04/12/2014,18:03:02,larrymayer@tethys.gso.uri.edu,Paper under review now with G3 which offers estimate of flux from seeps monitored on OK EX in 2012 — then extends estimate over larger area
04/12/2014,18:03:26,robertcarney,>GAS buccinid
04/12/2014,18:03:31,okeanosexplorer,>21 million gallons of oil seep into the gulf a year ~~
04/12/2014,18:07:12,Andrea Quattrini,>FSH 
04/12/2014,18:07:41,robertcarney,>friable fine  crust
04/12/2014,18:09:32,Bill Kiene,or grazing on chemosynthetic bacteria
04/12/2014,18:12:15,carolruppel,Sorry, what I tried to say on telecon is that the work Tom Weber has been doing on quantifying gas seeps...I don't know the numbers, but know the paper exists.  My USGS group & MIT are funded with Tom to look at the EK60 data from the Atlantic seeps discovered last year with Okeanos Explorer and try to do similar estimates.  In the field of hydroacoustics, this business of quantifying gas flux based on the acoustics is very 'hot' at the moment.  REsults obtained so far not without controversy in some cases either.
04/12/2014,18:12:55,larrymayer@tethys.gso.uri.edu,are there lasers lights for scale?
04/12/2014,18:12:57,robertcarney,>GAS abundant white gas is prob Cantrainea.  It has been studied with stable isotopes and is heterotrophic
04/12/2014,18:13:09,okeanosexplorer,we dont have lasers, sorry
04/12/2014,18:15:33,kelleyelliott,(Just a clarification that the D2 does have lasers, but only one is currently working. Hopefully we'll get it working soon for the other dives!)
04/12/2014,18:16:21,michaelvecchione,<FELO Halosaur?
04/12/2014,18:16:42,robertcarney,>Stained bottom fluid explousion
04/12/2014,18:16:56,robertcarney,>Brine?
04/12/2014,18:18:26,robertcarney,>Asphalt and liquid petro?
04/12/2014,18:19:13,robertcarney,>cluster black "drops" still stuck to bottom
04/12/2014,18:21:06,stennisecc,test
04/12/2014,18:21:30,okeanosexplorer,27 20.2961N; 92 21.5583W
04/12/2014,18:22:28,Bill Kiene,or is it brine flowing downslope?
04/12/2014,18:23:02,robertcarney,>FSH eelpout?
04/12/2014,18:23:04,okeanosexplorer,>Kramer: clear layer of brine? blow a thruster at it and it may be a river?
04/12/2014,18:23:16,michaelvecchione,>FSH
04/12/2014,18:23:46,robertcarney,>barite crust?
04/12/2014,18:23:49,larrymayer@tethys.gso.uri.edu,In the G3 paper (Weber et al) estimates of flux were made in several ways.  First high-res video of bubbles coming out of a seep was captured and the bubbles digitized against a gridded frame to indicate size and rise rate.   Secondly bubbles were captured in a graduated cylinder over a known amount of time (they immediately formed hydrates).  The volume of hydrate formed was measured.  The ROV then rose above the hydrate stability zone and the hydrate turned back to free gas and the volume of free gas was measured.  These experiments were successful because of the tremendous ingenuity of the ROV engineering team aboard the OK EX.   The quantitative backscatter in the water column from the seep was also measured by the MBES.  Using the bubble size determination from the video, the backscatter was used to estimate flux.  Remarkably these flux estimates agreed within about 35%.  It is probably inappropriate to offer the numbers until the paper is accepted but the estimates extrapolated over the number of seeps mapped during the 2011 and 2012 seasons (6000 sq km) represent approximately 0.1% of the global flux estimates of methane from seeps by folks like Hovland, Kvenolden and Judd.  Paper should be out soon.
04/12/2014,18:24:30,carolruppel,is there any possibility of getting a temperature measurement somewhere around here?
04/12/2014,18:24:47,robertcarney,>SHI Crnagonid
04/12/2014,18:24:56,robertcarney,Crangonid
04/12/2014,18:25:13,michaelvecchione,>FSH eelpout
04/12/2014,18:25:15,robertcarney,>FSH eelpout on feature
04/12/2014,18:25:39,okeanosexplorer,5.287 on CTD and similar on the probe
04/12/2014,18:25:39,robertcarney,> Crust concentric
04/12/2014,18:27:04,robertcarney,> Asphalt has been found similat sheets in Gulf
04/12/2014,18:27:23,okeanosexplorer,> the black balls maybe small accumulations of tar?
04/12/2014,18:28:06,robertcarney,Asphalt sheets in GoM can look like schredded garbage bags...plent of asphalt on N GoM slope
04/12/2014,18:28:19,okeanosexplorer,> tar valcanoes have been found elseware, the gravity of > 10 would stay on the bottom.
04/12/2014,18:29:09,robertcarney,line
04/12/2014,18:29:11,robertcarney,line
04/12/2014,18:29:12,Jamie Austin,brine channel?
04/12/2014,18:29:27,robertcarney,>ROC burrow casts
04/12/2014,18:30:04,michaelvecchione,>FELO cutthroat eel
04/12/2014,18:31:07,Jamie Austin,brine channel ends in what looks to be a bottom "delta"
04/12/2014,18:32:41,robertcarney,> Barite from fossil water
04/12/2014,18:32:55,okeanosexplorer,>barite? floating on a brine pool in Aliminos canyon in 2006.  
04/12/2014,18:34:11,carolruppel,barite is a very common precipitate in actively fluxing methane systems and barite horizons are used in some settings to track paleo-flux conditions based on where we know it is deposited in the shallow subsurface
04/12/2014,18:35:45,michaelvecchione,>FSH
04/12/2014,18:37:50,robertcarney,>CRA Chaceon many barnacles
04/12/2014,18:38:29,robertcarney,> CRA tracks in "brine"
04/12/2014,18:39:34,carolruppel,did the MBES data show active seepage in this precise area (over the assumed brine pool/remnant)?
04/12/2014,18:40:14,carolruppel,ok thx
04/12/2014,18:40:25,robertcarney,> small dark spots on sed
04/12/2014,18:40:39,okeanosexplorer,> whole area was satuated with bubble streams anom's in MBES
04/12/2014,18:42:24,Jamie Austin,oil droplets rising from the seafloor
04/12/2014,18:43:24,okeanosexplorer,> SHI Gliphocrangon in the Moasics
04/12/2014,18:44:01,robertcarney,> except for eelpout and crangonid shrimp the feature lacked obvious megafauna
04/12/2014,18:44:03,okeanosexplorer,> changing direction towars S11
04/12/2014,18:44:51,okeanosexplorer,> HD 310 for 140 m
04/12/2014,18:45:01,robertcarney,>FSH macrourid?
04/12/2014,18:45:14,stennisecc,Larry, could you give Bill S a call @ 504-913-7553, thanks
04/12/2014,18:46:15,robertcarney,>Sargassum
04/12/2014,18:46:37,robertcarney,>FELO
04/12/2014,
04/12/2014,18:46:50,michaelvecchione,cutthroat eel
04/12/2014,18:47:05,robertcarney,>URC
04/12/2014,18:47:15,Jamie Austin,more carbonate hardgrounds
04/12/2014,18:47:42,michaelvecchione,>FSH
04/12/2014,18:47:55,carolruppel,Jamie--some of those look like boulders, maybe not in-place...you have a better view than i do...do they look in situ?
04/12/2014,18:48:14,michaelvecchione,>FSH
04/12/2014,18:48:41,okeanosexplorer,> there are no evidace that they have been moved - likely sediment erroded around them
04/12/2014,18:48:55,carolruppel,ok thx.  wasn't sure what slope was/video not great on this computer
04/12/2014,18:49:00,okeanosexplorer,> subtle sloping of the bottom
04/12/2014,18:49:15,robertcarney,Shell hash is a mix of mussel and clam.  Large "death assemblages" are common in some seep areas.  Little is know because dead shells do not interest physiologists/ecologists
04/12/2014,18:49:24,okeanosexplorer,> bubbles
04/12/2014,18:49:26,michaelvecchione,>FSH
04/12/2014,18:49:26,Bill Kiene,Is the "carbonate" likely calcium carbonate or some other precipitation?
04/12/2014,18:49:42,michaelvecchione,>FSH
04/12/2014,18:49:45,Jamie Austin,multiple bubble streams
04/12/2014,18:50:00,kelleyelliott,Hi All - just an update on the still camera you are hearing about. A new still camera that can capture images in significantly higher resolution than the still images we have been pulling from our video has been added to the Deep Discoverer ROV. This is the first time we are using the still camera and we are still testing the camera, data pipeline and workflow. It is still very much in beta/testing mode and any image processing will slated to occur after the cruise. We haven't promoted it's presence since everything is still being testing and we can't promise products yet. We will be sure to inform folks when our procedures are further along and we can offer more. 
04/12/2014,18:50:03,okeanosexplorer,> 2 disctinct streems, stopping ship to look
04/12/2014,18:51:05,briankinlan,>SHI
04/12/2014,18:51:18,robertcarney,>URC
04/12/2014,18:51:44,okeanosexplorer,> most active stream so far.  
04/12/2014,18:52:03,robertcarney,>MUS lone
04/12/2014,18:52:32,Jamie Austin,liquid covering the bubbles
04/12/2014,18:53:09,okeanosexplorer,> the tubes are hydrate- known from sampling previosly
04/12/2014,18:53:09,robertcarney,>Gas Cantrainea
04/12/2014,18:57:33,okeanosexplorer,> looking at seep 4
04/12/2014,18:57:33,kelleyelliott,EK60 and Sub-bottom data was collceted here overnight
04/12/2014,18:58:15,robertcarney,>TUB single
04/12/2014,18:58:39,robertcarney,>TUB few between rocks
04/12/2014,19:00:09,robertcarney,>low white mound old hydrate site
04/12/2014,19:00:30,robertcarney,>CRA Chaceon
04/12/2014,19:00:42,robertcarney,>ROC shattered pavement look
04/12/2014,19:01:45,okeanosexplorer,> beds can be killed from toxisity or from plumbing being "turned off"
04/12/2014,19:01:58,Bill Kiene,Very good description of authogenic carbonate formation can be found here:  http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0037073811002648
04/12/2014,19:02:01,Bernie Ball,Carolyn, that's an excellent question, but I don't know the answer to that one.
04/12/2014,19:03:17,robertcarney,Spatial distribution of seep fauna geneally assumed to be controlled by chem gradients...really never well establsihed what the processes are
04/12/2014,19:03:49,robertcarney,>GAS Cantrainea again numerous
04/12/2014,19:04:31,robertcarney,Cantrainea is a "background" species found abundant at various seeps
04/12/2014,19:05:25,robertcarney,>ANT bottle
04/12/2014,19:05:52,robertmcguinn,>FSH
04/12/2014,19:05:58,robertcarney,> Small gray mound
04/12/2014,19:06:05,michaelvecchione,rattail
04/12/2014,19:06:10,Jamie Austin,More rubbly hardgrounds.  A lot of shell debris.
04/12/2014,19:06:18,okeanosexplorer,> lack of marine snow could be the reason the area is barren.
04/12/2014,19:06:24,robertcarney,>URC
04/12/2014,19:06:28,michaelvecchione,>another FSH
04/12/2014,19:07:02,robertcarney,>BIV shell hash among ROC
04/12/2014,19:07:12,robertcarney,>SQA
04/12/2014,19:07:35,robertcarney,>SPO white?
04/12/2014,19:07:37,Jamie Austin,Another brine channel through a hardground complex?
04/12/2014,19:07:45,michaelvecchione,>FSH rattail
04/12/2014,19:07:52,robertcarney,>AST brisingid
04/12/2014,19:09:04,Jamie Austin,About 50 m from S11.  27 20.3275 N, 92 21.5998 W
04/12/2014,19:09:09,robertcarney,>FSH
04/12/2014,19:09:22,michaelvecchione,>FSH
04/12/2014,19:09:31,robertcarney,>Crater
04/12/2014,19:09:51,robertcarney,no crater
04/12/2014,19:09:53,robertcarney,FSH
04/12/2014,19:10:36,okeanosexplorer,> beer can
04/12/2014,19:11:20,robertcarney,>SHI
04/12/2014,19:12:07,robertcarney,>Brachiopods
04/12/2014,19:13:31,robertcarney,>bio mounfs gray by burrow
04/12/2014,19:14:12,robertcarney,>BIV shell hash ROC mounded
04/12/2014,19:14:42,Jamie Austin,another large hardground, surrounded by shell debris
04/12/2014,19:15:32,robertcarney,>MUS live clump
04/12/2014,19:15:35,robertcarney,>URC
04/12/2014,19:15:40,robertcarney,bubble
04/12/2014,19:15:50,robertcarney,from under overhang
04/12/2014,19:16:10,briankinlan,zoom under outcrop pls
04/12/2014,19:16:11,michaelvecchione,>ASR
04/12/2014,19:16:35,robertcarney,>GAS Contarinea in large numbers
04/12/2014,19:17:24,briankinlan,lat/long?
04/12/2014,19:17:24,robertcarney,>Hydrate
04/12/2014,19:18:26,okeanosexplorer,>27 20.3465N  x 92 21.6182W
04/12/2014,19:18:41,okeanosexplorer,> hydrate under the out crop
04/12/2014,19:18:49,Jamie Austin,what looks to be hydrate under the ledge, with mussels
04/12/2014,19:19:08,Andrea Quattrini,woa! nice
04/12/2014,19:19:15,larrymayer@tethys.gso.uri.edu,SPECTACULAR!!!!!
04/12/2014,19:19:36,robertcarney,> iceworm  2 or so
04/12/2014,19:19:38,Andrea Quattrini,iceworms?
04/12/2014,19:19:46,michaelvecchione,>URC
04/12/2014,19:20:01,robertcarney,yes
04/12/2014,19:20:46,robertcarney,>CRA Chaceon
04/12/2014,19:21:01,robertcarney,>The polychaetes are the iceworms
04/12/2014,19:21:31,briankinlan,>POL
04/12/2014,19:22:10,robertcarney,not to my knowledge
04/12/2014,19:23:33,robertcarney,>SQA
04/12/2014,19:24:57,Andrea Quattrini,is that an eelpout under hydrate?
04/12/2014,19:25:21,michaelvecchione,eelpout?
04/12/2014,19:25:21,robertcarney,>GAS Buccinids and Cantrainea
04/12/2014,19:25:51,robertcarney,>CHI  
04/12/2014,19:26:03,michaelvecchione,eelpout conformed
04/12/2014,19:26:36,Andrea Quattrini,maybe Pachycara sulaki?
04/12/2014,19:27:13,robertcarney,Iceworms presumidly feed on bacteria in/on the hydrate...they smell of light hydrocarbons
04/12/2014,19:27:58,robertcarney,>AST goniastrid
04/12/2014,19:28:42,robertcarney,>MUS mussel stalagtite
04/12/2014,19:29:01,carolruppel,very cool--just baqck on now
04/12/2014,19:32:10,robertcarney,Various GoM workers have poked and prodded the hydrates.
04/12/2014,19:32:30,robertcarney,Typically ambient
04/12/2014,19:32:41,robertcarney,>CRA Chaceon
04/12/2014,19:33:24,robertcarney,>AST
04/12/2014,19:33:44,robertcarney,>GAS  buccinids
04/12/2014,19:34:20,larrymayer@tethys.gso.uri.edu,following on Carolyn's comment — this is also why it forms hydrate as soon as we try to capture it in a closed cylinder.
04/12/2014,19:34:54,okeanosexplorer,> stable at 400 m or deeper and slightly higher then 0 degrees. its very hard to probe.  the reason it is under overhangs so the water under the overhang becomes super saturated, there are many other hydreates besides methane and they need to be sampled.  The higher order are more stable then methane.  
04/12/2014,19:35:17,carolruppel,yes, Larry...and many people don't understand this...It is only because you have already saturated the water in dissolved gas that it is easy to make the hydrate phase
04/12/2014,19:36:16,robertcarney,>GAS numeroud buccinids on top of rock
04/12/2014,19:36:41,robertcarney,oil drops
04/12/2014,19:36:46,okeanosexplorer,> HD 0 degrees to WP 14
04/12/2014,19:37:07,robertcarney,>URC
04/12/2014,19:37:15,robertcarney,bubbles
04/12/2014,19:38:31,robertcarney,>TUB single
04/12/2014,19:38:37,robertcarney,>URC
04/12/2014,19:39:08,robertcarney,>GAS Cantrainea abundant
04/12/2014,19:39:53,robertcarney,>bubbles from many small holes
04/12/2014,19:40:35,robertmcguinn,>FSH
04/12/2014,19:41:40,robertcarney,> bubbles "frosting over"
04/12/2014,19:43:31,robertcarney,wounder what it sounds like?
04/12/2014,19:44:45,Andrea Quattrini,eelpout
04/12/2014,19:45:48,okeanosexplorer,> changing direction to 257 deg. 
04/12/2014,19:46:07,carolruppel,So what seemed to be happening at that location is seepage from many small holes in the seafloor.  Some seeped gas very rapidly.  At others, the gas would emerge and start to frost over as the bubble formed hydrate.  The bubble kept rising, but was connected to the hydrate-covered portion behind it (near the seafloor).  The head of the tube coming out of the seafloor was clear (still gas), while the sides were coated in hydrate.  
04/12/2014,19:46:08,robertcarney,>GAS Cantrainea more on brown mud than white mate
04/12/2014,19:46:17,Jamie Austin,S11 was certainly an active seep!  On our way to S10, at a bearing of 257 degrees.
04/12/2014,19:47:09,Jamie Austin,more hardgrounds
04/12/2014,19:48:28,robertcarney,>ROC boulders limited shell hash more sediment dusting
04/12/2014,19:48:29,Jamie Austin,these hardgrounds are extensive
04/12/2014,19:48:38,Andrea Quattrini,note no corals
04/12/2014,19:48:45,Andrea Quattrini,what is the depth?
04/12/2014,19:49:02,robertcarney,>AST brisingid
04/12/2014,19:49:08,Jamie Austin,depth is 967 m
04/12/2014,19:49:11,Andrea Quattrini,thanks!
04/12/2014,19:49:30,larrymayer@tethys.gso.uri.edu,Having seen many a frosty mug — it was indeed spectacular to see the frosty hydrate and the clearer.  Indeed the evidence for hydrate rinds has been more indirect than direct — i.e. the loss of the acoustic anomaly at the top of the hydrate stability zone - -but here we seem to be directly seeing the rind form.   Wonderful!!!
04/12/2014,19:49:39,robertcarney,>FSH macrourids
04/12/2014,19:50:07,michaelvecchione,>FSHes rattails
04/12/2014,19:51:15,Jamie Austin,on our way to the next seep site, S10, ~80 m away
04/12/2014,19:51:22,robertcarney,> Conical biomounds
04/12/2014,19:51:38,Jamie Austin,27 20.3469 N, 92 21.6355 W
04/12/2014,19:51:55,robertcarney,>pit bio
04/12/2014,19:52:41,robertcarney,>ANT?
04/12/2014,19:53:00,robertcarney,> darks spots on mud
04/12/2014,19:53:30,robertcarney,>burrow  rough walls with OPH
04/12/2014,19:54:24,robertcarney,>FSH
04/12/2014,19:58:25,robertcarney,>MAT in depression
04/12/2014,19:59:18,robertcarney,>sargassum
04/12/2014,19:59:28,Jamie Austin,bioturbation increasing
04/12/2014,20:01:22,robertcarney,FSH
04/12/2014,20:01:45,robertcarney,> pits anf mounds w/ color contrast
04/12/2014,20:01:50,michaelvecchione,slickhead?
04/12/2014,20:02:12,carolruppel,FYI the temperature at which methane-only hydrate is in equilibrium with nominal seawater salt concentrations at these water depths is about 11.7 C.  Thus we are well within the hydrate stability field at the seafloor if the temperature is running between 5 and 5.5 C.  
04/12/2014,20:02:32,robertcarney,>large burrow
04/12/2014,20:02:49,robertcarney,>HOL Mesothuria lactera with small CRA
04/12/2014,20:03:06,carolruppel,is there a common name for that?
04/12/2014,20:03:22,robertcarney,>CRA small lithodid of some sort
04/12/2014,20:03:50,robertcarney,my type lactea "milk"
04/12/2014,20:04:04,carolruppel,how big is that?
04/12/2014,20:04:16,carolruppel,right, but a guess?
04/12/2014,20:04:32,robertcarney,used to be Zygothuria lactea ...naked milk-colored  typicall 30cm
04/12/2014,20:04:45,robertcarney,>sarg
04/12/2014,20:05:02,robertcarney,>SHI
04/12/2014,20:05:24,Jamie Austin,very close to S10
04/12/2014,20:05:39,robertcarney,SHI small white
04/12/2014,20:05:56,robertcarney,>SHI crangonid
04/12/2014,20:06:02,Jamie Austin,not much topography
04/12/2014,20:06:17,robertcarney,>MUS still many dead single valves
04/12/2014,20:07:34,robertcarney,At Bush Hill flux was measured and seemed to huff and puff
04/12/2014,20:08:08,robertcarney,Widely scattered dead shells were spread around by predators
04/12/2014,20:08:55,robertcarney,as we get closer to a live seep you may see dead articulated
04/12/2014,20:09:53,robertcarney,>sargassum
04/12/2014,20:10:08,robertcarney,>HOL Mesothuria lactea
04/12/2014,20:10:37,okeanosexplorer,were circling back - i think that was the same one
04/12/2014,20:11:47,Jamie Austin,moving on to S9.  Nothing much to see at S10.
04/12/2014,20:12:12,robertcarney,>biomounds near large burrow with rough walls
04/12/2014,20:12:34,michaelvecchione,>FSH rattail
04/12/2014,20:12:52,michaelvecchione,not a rttiail - prob cusk eel
04/12/2014,20:14:16,briankinlan,lat/long?
04/12/2014,20:14:35,okeanosexplorer,27 20.3300N 92 21.6795W
04/12/2014,20:14:44,briankinlan,thanks!
04/12/2014,20:14:46,Jamie Austin,bridge reports bubbles at the surface
04/12/2014,20:14:48,robertcarney,>sargassum in burrow
04/12/2014,20:14:58,Jamie Austin,oil sick as well
04/12/2014,20:15:39,Jamie Austin,slick, correction
04/12/2014,20:15:43,Jamie Austin,\
04/12/2014,20:16:58,robertcarney,>HOL Mesothuria lactea
04/12/2014,20:17:25,robertcarney,back end
04/12/2014,20:18:00,robertcarney,>FEC
04/12/2014,20:18:58,robertcarney,> BIV shell hash
04/12/2014,20:19:15,okeanosexplorer,> large pit
04/12/2014,20:19:22,robertcarney,>Depression w/ ROC and MUS
04/12/2014,20:19:43,robertcarney,.TUB scattered
04/12/2014,20:19:49,Jamie Austin,S9 coming up a lot of dead shell surrounding a large hardground deposit
04/12/2014,20:19:51,Bernie Ball, >MUS mountain
04/12/2014,20:19:52,briankinlan,>ROC CAR
04/12/2014,20:20:08,robertcarney,>MUS numerous smaller light brown
04/12/2014,20:20:14,briankinlan,MUS live
04/12/2014,20:20:24,Jamie Austin,bubbles from the mussels
04/12/2014,20:20:45,briankinlan,GAS
04/12/2014,20:20:57,briankinlan,URC
04/12/2014,20:20:57,robertcarney,>GAS Cantrainea on mud around rock
04/12/2014,20:21:02,Bernie Ball,>	looks like hydrate
04/12/2014,20:21:08,robertcarney,>CRA 
04/12/2014,20:21:12,robertcarney,Hydrate
04/12/2014,20:21:28,robertcarney,?URC
04/12/2014,20:22:15,robertcarney,>SQA
04/12/2014,20:22:44,robertcarney,>GAS buccinids
04/12/2014,20:22:48,Bernie Ball,>SER
04/12/2014,20:23:08,robertcarney,>SQA very large arms
04/12/2014,20:23:29,okeanosexplorer,> loads of bota around  the metane ice.  
04/12/2014,20:23:38,robertcarney,>MUS mix of sizes
04/12/2014,20:25:00,okeanosexplorer,>ice shrimp? found right on the hydrate. 1st sighting in this dive
04/12/2014,20:25:30,erikcordes,looks like Alvinocaris
04/12/2014,20:25:49,erikcordes,this depth is the transition between the species. not sure what it is
04/12/2014,20:25:56,robertcarney,>Icewoms within the hydrate
04/12/2014,20:26:21,erikcordes,munidopsis
04/12/2014,20:26:23,robertcarney,>MUS within hydrate
04/12/2014,20:26:44,robertcarney,> SHI Alvinocaris
04/12/2014,20:27:03,robertcarney,>CHI
04/12/2014,20:27:29,erikcordes,not quite like this
04/12/2014,20:27:32,robertcarney,> "snotworms in MUS"
04/12/2014,20:27:53,erikcordes,jamie’s right on
04/12/2014,20:28:14,okeanosexplorer,does anyone know the scientific name of these muscles?
04/12/2014,20:28:27,briankennedy,>CTE
04/12/2014,20:28:32,robertcarney,>GAS buccinids on MUS
04/12/2014,20:28:37,okeanosexplorer,thx
04/12/2014,20:28:57,carolruppel,thanks to pilots...that was lovely
04/12/2014,20:29:48,robertcarney,>TUB scattered solitary
04/12/2014,20:30:06,carolruppel,bill-great choice on dive location today...phenomena i've never seen 
04/12/2014,20:30:14,okeanosexplorer,> doing a 360 around S9 for a better idea
04/12/2014,20:30:52,robertcarney,>CRA lithodid
04/12/2014,20:31:08,okeanosexplorer,type of Majid?
04/12/2014,20:31:31,robertcarney,lithodidae
04/12/2014,20:32:05,Bernie Ball,>bubbles
04/12/2014,20:32:49,michaelvecchione,Neolithodes
04/12/2014,20:32:49,robertcarney,>CRA possibly Paralithodes
04/12/2014,20:33:02,michaelvecchione,I defer to bob
04/12/2014,20:33:46,robertcarney,>TUB few scattered singles
04/12/2014,20:33:49,carolruppel,is that a tubeworm under that overhang on the left?
04/12/2014,20:34:08,Bernie Ball,Can we get a few zooms on the tubeworm and the mussel mound?
04/12/2014,20:36:02,robertcarney,>GAS cluster of buccinids
04/12/2014,20:37:48,robertcarney,>yes TUB few scattered...actually pretty typical of hard grounds even if no large clumps are found
04/12/2014,20:38:26,okeanosexplorer,>CORB
04/12/2014,20:38:30,michaelvecchione,FELO cutthroat eel
04/12/2014,20:38:49,Bernie Ball,>TUB
04/12/2014,20:39:31,michaelvecchione,FSH rattail
04/12/2014,20:40:01,briankinlan,CORO Chrysogorgia(?)
04/12/2014,20:40:28,briankinlan,was there a black coral I didn't see?
04/12/2014,20:40:31,robertcarney,>SQA
04/12/2014,20:40:43,okeanosexplorer,YEs on the way around Tanaetipathes?
04/12/2014,20:41:02,briankinlan,Cool.  >CORA Tanaetipathes?
04/12/2014,20:41:21,okeanosexplorer,Yes im a terrible speller... thx
04/12/2014,20:41:31,okeanosexplorer,no tanacetipathes
04/12/2014,20:41:54,robertcarney,>SQA within
04/12/2014,20:42:00,briankinlan,sorry typo on my end too. 
04/12/2014,20:42:59,briankinlan,>SQU within CORO Chrysogorgia
04/12/2014,20:43:09,okeanosexplorer,lol i spelled it wrong 1st no worries. 
04/12/2014,20:43:16,briankinlan,>SQA within CORO Chrysogorgia
04/12/2014,20:43:22,robertcarney,>TUB
04/12/2014,20:43:51,robertcarney,>TUB few
04/12/2014,20:44:35,robertcarney,>CRA mating pair Chaceon
04/12/2014,20:44:48,briankinlan,SHI on CAR outcrop
04/12/2014,20:45:34,robertcarney,>TUB plume out
04/12/2014,20:45:54,carolruppel,what's the plume bob
04/12/2014,20:45:59,briankinlan,final lat/long?
04/12/2014,20:46:12,robertcarney,the respiratory structure
04/12/2014,20:46:20,okeanosexplorer,27 20.3251N 92 21.7046W
04/12/2014,20:46:47,carolruppel,way cool
04/12/2014,20:47:01,okeanosexplorer,does anyone know the Sci name for these worms?
04/12/2014,20:47:17,Bernie Ball,Lammelibrachia?
04/12/2014,20:47:26,robertcarney,I defer to Eric 
04/12/2014,20:47:31,robertcarney,erik
04/12/2014,20:47:52,robertcarney,>POL in center of plume?
04/12/2014,20:49:33,briankennedy,>batfish
04/12/2014,20:49:36,michaelvecchione,FSH batfish
04/12/2014,20:51:40,michaelvecchione,nice zoom
04/12/2014,20:53:08,michaelvecchione,FELO
04/12/2014,20:53:13,robertcarney,> SED in tracks very thin oxidized layer
04/12/2014,20:53:56,robertcarney,>SNOTWORMS galore
04/12/2014,20:54:26,carolruppel,again this looks like porous hydrate under the overhang (hydrate formed around bubbles and glommed on to the mass--the inverted snowcone) with bubbles passing through 
04/12/2014,20:54:30,okeanosexplorer,does anyone know the sci name of the snotworms
04/12/2014,20:56:13,carolruppel,outstanding dive...thanks for all the hard work shipboard
04/12/2014,20:56:33,robertcarney,>snotworm = Methanoaricia dendrobranchiata
04/12/2014,20:56:38,okeanosexplorer,thx
04/12/2014,20:56:44,briankinlan,is the post-dive call on the same line?
04/12/2014,20:57:15,okeanosexplorer,yes, all confernce calls will be on the same phne number
04/12/2014,20:57:40,briankinlan,ok thanks
04/12/2014,20:59:10,larrymayer@tethys.gso.uri.edu,what time is the post-dive call?
04/12/2014,20:59:42,briankinlan,4:15 CDT / 5:15 EDT
04/12/2014,20:59:54,larrymayer@tethys.gso.uri.edu,thanks
04/12/2014,21:01:53,michaelvecchione,>JFH
04/12/2014,21:02:16,kelleyelliott,Please use the same call-in number for the ship-to-shore science call: 1-877-960-1977, passcode 1844757
04/12/2014,21:02:26,kelleyelliott,Wrong on e
04/12/2014,21:02:54,kelleyelliott,1-866-617-5860, passcode 1233796  --> The correct dial-in number
04/12/2014,22:07:04,briankennedy,have a good night all
04/12/2014,23:52:13,kelleyelliott,This is a live update from the NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer. We had a great ROV dive today at site GB648 and visually confirmed multiple seep sites. The ROV is now secured on deck and the ship is currently acquiring EK60 data overtop of today's dive site. Following completion of EK60 operations, we'll conduct overnight mapping operations to collect multibeam, single beam and sub-bottom data overtop of the next few ROV dive sites: GB907, NW Gulf Mid-Depth and Monterrey wrecksite C. Precise plans for our dive at site GB907 will be finalized early tomorrow morning using our new datasets. ROV launch is planned for 0830 and the vehicle should arrive on bottom around 0945-1000 Central time. Look for your e-mail from our science leads to learn when we'll have our morning ship-to-shore dive briefing.