Sunday, October 16, 2011

The dive continues...


Date: 2011/10/16
Time: 15:33:08 GMT
Latitude: 9 ° 51.04344 N
Longitude: 104 ° 14.09754 W

After a full 24 hours in the water, the dive continues. We successfully sampled some tubeworms yesterday afternoon and sent them to the surface - one is currently being kept alive in a pressurized aquarium! We are now continuing to map and visit benchmarks. By this evening, we hope to begin our southward traverse along the axis of the East Pacific Rise to recover instruments and continue mapping....

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