Date: 2011/10/06
Time: 02:00:08 GMT
Latitude: 26 ° 13.6686 N
Longitude: 114 ° 38.47458 W
It was definitely an eventful day, and it sounds like it's going to be even more interesting tomorrow. Apart from the absolutely amazing brush with dolphins earlier today, we had our general science meeting. Pretty much everything we're going to be doing is going to involve Jason in some regard. There's a group from the University of Vienna that is going to be collecting tube worms and attempting to keep them in a high pressure aquarium. In addition, we'll be doing some high resolution mapping of the axial ridge to fill in a few gaps and try to better understand the magmatic processes going on down there. We are also going to be attempting to retrieve some pressure sensors from the seafloor. Along the way, we'll be collecting multibeam bathymetry data, which hopefully won't overlap too much with previous cruises. Tomorrow, we'll be checking out the engine room and taking a tour of Jason and the control van. Other than that, it's more and more transiting with an ETA of Monday morning.
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