Saturday, June 10, 2006

Day 27 - Over Columbo

Wednesday June 7, 2006
Despite the fact we're not using our bow thruster to help position the ship, the crew of the R/V Endeavor has done an excellent job with the variable pitch prop. Dr. Ballard even said, "Don't use Herculean effort to fix the bow thruster." Knowing Dr. Ballard for the short time I have, I'd say the pun WAS intended!
Now that Hercules and Argus are both in the water we're getting some amazing footage of the vents and smokers. We're taking quite a few samples off the top of some of the vents. Of course the running joke is, "Do you think if we break off a sample from the wrong vent, that'll start an eruption?" We're being very careful.

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